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新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

lean

英  [liːn]
    

[ADJ, VERB]

    ADJ. 形容词

  • leaner , leanest

    1. 清瘦而且健康

    If you describe someone as lean, you mean that they are thin but look strong and healthy.

    双语例句

    例：

    Like most athletes, she was lean and muscular.

    像大部分运动员一样，她清瘦而且肌肉强健。

    2. 少脂肪的

    If meat is lean, it does not have very much fat.

    双语例句

    例：

    It is a beautiful meat, very lean and tender.

    这是一块好肉，又瘦又嫩。

    3. 高效的

    If you describe an organization as lean, you mean that it has become more efficient and less wasteful by getting rid of staff, or by dropping projects which were unprofitable.

    双语例句

    例：

    reforms which turned us into a lean and competitive nation.

    使我们成为高效率、竞争力强的国家的改革。

    4. 贫乏的

    If you describe periods of time as lean, you mean that people have less of something such as money or are less successful than they used to be.

    双语例句

    例：

    My parents lived through the lean years of the 1930s.

    我的父母经历了20世纪30年代的萧条期。

    PHRASAL VERB. 短语动词

  • lean on , lean upon

    1. [PHRASAL 短语] 依靠（支持和鼓励）

    If you lean on someone or lean upon them, you depend on them for support and encouragement.

    双语例句

    例：

    She leaned on him to help her to solve her problems.

    她依靠他帮忙解决问题。

    VERB. 动词

  • leans , leaning , leaned , leant

    1. [I 不及物动词] （身体）倾斜

    When you lean in a particular direction, you bend your body in that direction.

    双语例句

    例：

    Eileen leaned across and opened the passenger door.

    艾琳探过身来打开了乘客门。

    2. [I 不及物动词] 把…靠（在…上） , 靠（在…上）

    If you lean on or against someone or something, you rest against them so that they partly support your weight. If you lean an object on or against something, you place the object so that it is partly supported by that thing.

    双语例句

    例：

    She was feeling tired and was glad to lean against him.

    她感到累了，靠在他肩上让她感到很开心。

    例：

    Lean the plants against a wall and cover the roots with peat.

    把这些植物靠在墙上，用泥炭盖住根部。

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