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As an adjective, 'lean' describes a body that is thin but strong and fit, with very little fat - and it describes meat with little fat too, like 'lean chicken breast.' As a verb, 'to lean' means to bend your body toward something, or to rest against it for support, like leaning against a wall while you wait.
(形容詞)精瘦的、體脂低的;(動詞)傾斜、倚靠
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Leanname
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A surname.
leanverb詞源 1/ˈliːn/
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To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- a leaning column
- She leaned out of the window.
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To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
- I’m leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election.
- The Hispanic vote leans Democratic.
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To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
- He lean'd not on his fathers but himself.
- The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
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To hang outwards.
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To press against.
- Oppreſs'd with Anguiſh, panting, and o'reſpent, / His fainting Limbs against an Oak he leant.
leannoun詞源 1/ˈliːn/
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An inclination away from the vertical.
- The trees had various leans toward gaps in the canopy.
leanadj詞源 2/ˈliːn/
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Slim; not fleshy.
- They will now dedicate several hours at the gym every day to be leaner and stronger.
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Having little fat.
- lean steak cuts
- The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
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Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- a lean budget
- a lean harvest
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Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- A lean ore hardly worth mining.
- Running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much.
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archaicmediaprintingpublishingOf a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
- lean copy, matter, or type
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businessEfficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
- lean management
- lean manufacturing
leannoun詞源 2/ˈliːn/
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Meat with no fat on it.
- Jack Sprat would eat no fat, / His wife would eat no lean.
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biologynatural-sciencesAn organism that is lean in stature.
- The intermediates and leans are the predominant morphotypes found at the SE-NHR seamounts […]
- Obese Zuckers, compared to leans, consumed more food under free-feeding conditions.
leanverb詞源 2/ˈliːn/
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To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose.
- Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude.
leannoun詞源 3/ˈliːn/
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slangA recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.
- Eyes real tight 'cause I'm chokin' the creep; vision messed up 'cause I'm drinkin' the lean.
- "What's in the cup, let me see that / Girl, where the rest of that promethazine at?" / She said, "Cool, gotta run out to my Cadillac though / And I'll be like Fat Joe, and bring the lean back"
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。