動詞 wean:

1. gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk
   同義詞：ablactate
2. detach the affections of

1. She had her baby weaned a year later.
   她在一年后才把孩子的奶斷掉。
2. Police weaned him away from drugs.
   警察讓他漸漸戒毒。

wean

v.tr.（及物動詞）
weaned,wean.ing,weans
To accustom (the young of a mammal) to take nourishment other than by suckling.
使斷奶：使（幼年哺乳動物）習慣于不吃奶而獲得養(yǎng)料
To detach from that to which one is strongly habituated or devoted:
使戒掉：使脫離已經(jīng)根深蒂固的東西：
例句：
She weaned herself from cigarettes.
她自己戒了煙

Usage Problem To be raised on.
【用法疑難】 被撫養(yǎng)

來源：
Middle English wenen
中古英語 wenen
from Old English wenian * see wen-
源自 古英語 wenian *參見 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.
近些年來weaned on 已經(jīng)被廣泛地用于.被…養(yǎng)大.的意義， 如此句看著 特萊克明星 電視連續(xù)劇長大的影迷會毫無疑問地發(fā)現(xiàn)這部電影對他們的胃口。 一些批評家反對這種用法的理由在于wean 原指脫離營養(yǎng)之源。 但是斷奶的過程包含了以別種形式營養(yǎng)代替母乳；于是有時候我們說一個孩子斷奶水 或 糖水。 因此句子如保羅是聽著迪克西爵士樂長大的 可能暗喻地表示保羅從停奶的時候，也就是很早以前就聽過迪克西爵士樂了