发音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ɡliːn/

  • （英国）音频：

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• 斷字：glean
• 韻部：-iːn

动词

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

Before the apparition of modern agriculture, women often had to glean.
现代农业技术出现前，妇女们常需要挑拣田间剩下的作物。

1. 收集剩下的果实、谷物等

   近義詞：

   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2:2:

     Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.

     容我往田間去，我蒙誰的恩，就在誰的身後拾取麥穗。

2. 在...捡拾剩下的物品

   to glean a field

   在田中拣物

3. (比喻義) （一点点地）收集，挑拣（有用信息）

   近義詞：

   • Template:RQ:Locke Human Understanding
   • 8 December 2011, BBC News, Iran shows film of captured US drone, available in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098562 :

     He said Iran was "well aware of what priceless technological information" could be gleaned from the aircraft.

4. 费力地收集
   • 1912, Edith and Warner Oland, “Biographical Note”, 出自 Three Plays By August Strindberg，頁號 xi:

     He [August Strindberg] gleaned a living from newspaper work for a few months, but in the summer went to a fishing village […] where […] he wrote his great historical drama Master Olof.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

名词

(複數)

1. 捡拾而来的东西
   • Template:RQ:Dryden Georgics

     The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.

名词

1. (棄用) 胞衣
   • Template:RQ:Holland Pliny