| 词组 | lean |
| 释义 | lean 1. While both leant and leaned can be found in the past tense and past participle in British English, leant is preferred. In American English, leaned is used almost exclusively. • The train started. Snopes leaned into the aisle, looking back —William Faulkner, Sanctuary, 1931 • Jake leaned against the counter. 'Say what kind of a place is this town?' —Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 1940 • ... the air-speed indicator leaned right until it rested on one hundred and twenty —James Gould Coz-zens, Guard of Honor, 1948 • She leant out of the porthole —Ngaio Marsh, Death of a Peer, 1940 • Mr. Pondoroso leant his scooter against the Wayne Mews wall —Colin Maclnnes, Absolute Beginners, 1959 • ... entered her child's room and leant over his sleeping form —Ray Smuts, Sunday Times (South Africa), 10 Nov. 1974 • His anger vanished. His whole soul leaned out eagerly towards Gallagher, craving support —Liam O'Flaherty, The Informer, 1925 • The 1RS has leaned on him for money accrued from the movie —Joe Flaherty, Inside Sports, 31 Jan. 1981 2. Lean is used with a great number of prepositions, but by far the one most frequently found is on: • They leant on the counter, laughing and talking — John Fountain, The Bulletin (Sydney, Australia), 24 Feb. 1954 • Both items lean heavily on nostalgia —Bennett Cerf, Saturday Rev., 22 May 1954 • This is a straight deal or the senora wouldn't be in it. You have no reason to lean on me —Pierre Salinger, On Instructions of My Government, 1971 • ... a factor ... never pointedly leant on by the playwright to underpin his case —John Bayley, Times Literary Supp., 20 June 1980 Lean with to, toward, or towards is also quite common: • ... many times have I, leaning to yonder Palm, admired the blessedness of it —Virginia Woolf, The Second Common Reader, 1932 • ... Mr. Horgan leans too heavily to the side of the friars and paints them whiter than the evidence justifies —Oliver La Farge, American Scholar, Spring 1955 • ... nearly everybody leans toward a timid conservatism with regard to unfamiliar music —Virgil Thomson, The Musical Scene, 1947 • The woman leaned her hard eyes toward them: "The broken glass, monsieur, that'll cost you one franc extra." —Waldo Frank, Island in the Atlantic, 1946 • ... his aesthetic appreciation ... leaned towards the old rather than to the modern —A. L. Rowse, West-Country Stories, 1947 • Without looking up at him she leant towards him — Ngaio Marsh, Death of a Peer, 1940 Lean is also found with other prepositions. Following are examples of upon, in, and against: • Shakespeare leaned, as it were, even as craftsman, upon the general fate of men and nations —The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, 1954 • I wasn't being lonely and sitting home and crying. I was leaning over in the opposite direction —Ethel Merman, quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 5 Mar. 1955 • The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall —Ernest Hemingway, Life, 1 Sept. 1952 Earlier in this article are examples of lean with into, out of, and over. |
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