wean

verb

1. 使（婴儿或动物幼崽）断奶
   to gradually stop feeding a baby or young animal with its mother's milk and start feeding it with solid food

1. VERB 给(婴儿或幼崽)断奶
   When a baby or baby animal is weaned, its mother stops feeding it milk and starts giving it other food, especially solid food.
   1. The baby would be weaned and she would bring it home...
      婴儿断奶后，她会把婴儿带回家。
   2. When would be the best time to start weaning my baby?...
      什么时候开始给我的孩子断奶最好？
   3. Phil took the labrador home and is weaning him off milk on to meat...
      菲尔把拉布拉多犬带回了家，正给它断奶，改喂肉食。
   4. Once weaned, the piglets may be put in pens.
      一旦断了奶，小猪就可以放进猪圈了。
2. VERB 使放弃，使戒掉，使不再依赖(尤指恶习)
   If you wean someone off a habit or something they like, you gradually make them stop doing it or liking it, especially when you think is bad for them.
   1. He was mellowed by a wife who weaned him off violence and drink...
      他妻子帮他戒除了动粗和嗜酒的恶习，使他变得成熟了。
   2. You are given pills with small quantities of nicotine to wean you from cigarettes...
      会给你一些含少量尼古丁的药片帮你戒除烟瘾。
   3. Children should be weaned off television...
      孩子应该少看电视。
   4. It's two years since I've seen Iain. I'm still trying to wean myself off him but it's hard.
      我已有两年没见过伊恩了。我试图让自己不再去想他，可很难做到。

1. The baby would be weaned and she would bring it home
   婴儿断奶后，她会把婴儿带回家。
2. When would be the best time to start weaning my baby?
   什么时候开始给我的孩子断奶最好？
3. Phil took the labrador home and is weaning him off milk on to meat
   菲尔把拉布拉多犬带回了家，正给它断奶，改喂肉食。
4. Once weaned, the piglets may be put in pens.
   一旦断了奶，小猪就可以放进猪圈了。
5. He was mellowed by a wife who weaned him off violence and drink
   他妻子帮他戒除了动粗和嗜酒的恶习，使他变得成熟了。
6. You are given pills with small quantities of nicotine to wean you from cigarettes
   会给你一些含少量尼古丁的药片帮你戒除烟瘾。
7. Children should be weaned off television
   孩子应该少看电视。
8. It's two years since I've seen Iain. I'm still trying to wean myself off him but it's hard.
   我已有两年没见过伊恩了。我试图让自己不再去想他，可很难做到。
9. But as you grow in faith, he will wean you of these dependencies.
   但是当你在信心中成长，他要你戒断这些依赖。
10. The doctor gives him a special injection to help him wean of the drug.
    医生为他打了一针，帮助他戒掉毒瘾。
11. We have a substitute that can help wean you off heroin.
    我们有一种替代品，可以帮你戒除海洛因。
12. You know him personally, you wean?
    你的意思是你本人就认识他？
13. It is necessary to wean people off of it slowly and get them to eat less salt.
    必须使人们缓慢戒掉高盐饮食并让他们习惯于食用低盐食物。
14. I do not expect any government to dare to wean the English from their trust in land speculation.
    我不指望哪届政府敢于让英国人放弃对土地投机的依赖。
15. What am I supposed to tell the wean in the morning?
    我早上怎么和那些孩子说？
16. Tom was sent away to school to wean him from bad companions.
    汤姆被送去上学，以使他和坏伙伴断绝来往。
17. He must wean himself from suckling the energy of others and become a vibrant transmitter of energy himself.
    他必须戒掉自己吮吸他人能量的恶习，而成为一个充满活力的能源体并不断向外放射这种正能量。
18. She tried to wean him away from football.
    她要他以后不要再踢足球了。
19. It's difficult to wean an addict off cocaine once they're hooked.
    一旦一个人对可卡因上了瘾，就很难戒掉。
20. A child who is allowed to wean himself naturally is generally more independent and more secure in himself.
    一个自己断奶的小孩会更加独立和安全感。
21. Were we not wean'd till then?
    莫非我们还没断奶？
22. The couple are doing all they could to wean their only son away from drugs.
    这对夫妇竭尽全力要使他们的独生子戒掉吸毒的恶习。
23. She started to wean her baby when it was about six months old.
    她在孩子6个月左右的时候开始给他断奶。
24. Americans must, she said, "wean* Ourselves from the gas tax".
    她表示，美国人必须“断了燃油税的念头”。
25. Trying to wean people from cigarettes by gradually reducing the nicotine content.
    试图用逐渐减少尼古丁含量的办法使人们戒烟。
26. This would offer additional short-term relief, but would not help wean the economy off exports.
    这将在短期内带来更多助益，但无助于减轻德国经济对出口的依赖。
27. Such enthusiasm reflects the hope that nuclear power can wean America off imported fossil fuels.
    政府的热心反映出美国希望利用核电以戒除进口化石燃料。
28. Instead, every effort should be made to wean it away from noxious terrorist groups.
    相反，我们应尽一切努力，让该国与有害的恐怖组织断绝关系。
29. The patch enables smokers to wean themselves off cigarettes very gradually.
    这张贴片能使吸烟者很缓慢地把烟戒掉。
30. But China needs to wean itself off its dependence on fixed-asset investment.
    但是，中国有必要摆脱自身对固定资产投资的依赖。

wean sb off/from sth

1. 使逐渐戒除恶习（或避免依赖…）
   to make sb gradually stop doing or using sth

wean sb on sth

1. 使…经常经历（尤指从早年）
   to make sb experience sth regularly, especially from an early age

verb

1. gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk
   1. she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk
   2. The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle

   Synonym:    ablactate

2. detach the affections of