单词 | to glean information |
释义 | > as lemmasto glean information a. transferred and figurative. To gather or pick up in small quantities; to scrape together. Now chiefly with immaterial object, esp. to glean information, to glean experience, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > in small quantities gleanc1350 c1350 Wynnere & Wastoure 231 in Gollancz Parl. 3 Ages Alle þat I wynn thurgh witt he wastes thurgh pryde; I geder, I glene, and hee lattys goo sone. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 954 In þat oþer [Jerusalem] is noȝt bot pes to glene. a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 495 For alle the good that men may rippe and glene Wasted is in outrageous aray. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 362 In flood, or lene Cley lond, or nigh the see, grauel let glene. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 95 He gleaneth whatsoeuer is good or ought woorth through his whole kingdome. 1604 E. Grimeston in tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies Ded. sig. A 3 The advantage I have gleaned from idle hours..is commended to your Honors Patronage. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 224 A hundred others haue since that gleaned seuerall additions of Titles and new names their distributed. 1673 Ld. Aungier in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 60 Calling upon Sr Arthur Forbes, I have glean'd from him what I am now to tell yr Excye. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 4 From them [he] gleaned materials which he formed into a regular history. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxix. 95 For many a joy could he from Night's soft presence glean. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 56 A few examples have been gleaned from mediæval Chronicles. < as lemmas |
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