| 单词 | glean |
| 释义 | glean (once / 1708 pages) v Seeing a word in context lets you glean information about how it's used. Glean means to gather bit by bit. You might say, "I couldn't understand her accent, but from what I could glean, she needs money to take the bus." In the Book of Ruth in The Bible, Ruth meets her future husband when she asked permission to glean from his fields, which means follow the grain cutters, gathering the seed kernels that have fallen on the ground. For the very poor at this time, gleaning was often means of getting food. WORD FAMILYglean: gleaned, gleaner, gleaning, gleans+/gleaner: gleaners USAGE EXAMPLESBut necropsies provide information about cetaceans that would be well nigh impossible to glean in any other way. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) This well-known podcast isn’t usually classified as “self-help,” but there are life lessons to be gleaned here. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) What other unexpected insights did you glean after you sat down and wrote the book? Salon(Dec 25, 2016) v gather, as of natural products Syn|Hypo|Hyper harvest, reap cut reap or harvest collect, garner, gather, pull together assemble or get together |
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