leaned
柯林斯詞典
1. V-I When you lean in a particular direction, you bend your body in that direction. (身躰) 傾斜
Eileen leaned across and opened the passenger door. 艾琳探過身來打開了乘客門。
2. V-T/V-I 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. 把…靠 (在…上); 靠 (在…上)
She was feeling tired and was glad to lean against him. 她感到累了，樂意靠在他身上。
Lean the plants against a wall and cover the roots with peat. 把這些植物靠在牆上，用泥炭蓋住根部。
3. N the condition of inclining from a vertical position 傾斜
4. ADJ If you describe someone as lean, you mean that they are thin but look strong and healthy. 清瘦而且健康[表贊許]
Like most athletes, she was lean and muscular. 像大部分運動員一樣，她清瘦而且肌肉強健。
5. ADJ If meat is lean, it does not have very much fat. 少脂肪的
It is a beautiful meat, very lean and tender. 這是一塊好肉，又瘦又嫩。
6. N the part of meat that contains little or no fat 瘦肉
7. ADJ 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. 高傚的
...reforms which turned us into a lean and competitive nation. …使我們成爲(wèi)高傚率、競爭力強的國家的改革。
8. ADJ 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. 貧乏的
My parents lived through the lean years of the 1930s. 我的父母經(jīng)歷了20世紀(jì)30年代的蕭條期。
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