wean
v.tr.（及物动词）weaned,wean.ing,weans To accustom (the young of a mammal) to take nourishment other than by suckling.使断奶：使（幼年哺乳动物）习惯于不吃奶而获得养料To detach from that to which one is strongly habituated or devoted:使戒掉：使脱离已经根深蒂固的东西：例句：She weaned herself from cigarettes.她自己戒了烟
Usage Problem To be raised on.【用法疑难】 被抚养
来源：Middle English wenen 中古英语 wenen from Old English wenian * see wen- 源自 古英语 wenian *参见 wen-
In recent yearsweaned on has come to be widely used in the sense .raised on,. as inMoviegoers weaned on the Star Trek TV series will doubtless find the film to their liking. A few critics have objected to this usage on the grounds thatwean refers literally to a detachment from a source of nourishment. But the process of weaning involves a substitution of some other form of nourishment for mother`s milk;thus it is sometimes said that a child isweaned onto or on sugar water. Hence a sentence likePaul was weaned on Dixieland may suggest metaphorically that Paul`s exposure to Dixieland began from the time he stopped nursing, that is, from a very early age. 近些年来weaned on 已经被广泛地用于.被…养大.的意义， 如此句看着 特莱克明星 电视连续剧长大的影迷会毫无疑问地发现这部电影对他们的胃口。 一些批评家反对这种用法的理由在于wean 原指脱离营养之源。 但是断奶的过程包含了以别种形式营养代替母乳；于是有时候我们说一个孩子断奶水 或 糖水。 因此句子如保罗是听着迪克西爵士乐长大的 可能暗喻地表示保罗从停奶的时候，也就是很早以前就听过迪克西爵士乐了
