Glean

(v. t.) To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.

(v. t.) To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.

(v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.

(v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.

(v. i.) To pick up or gather anything by degrees.

(n.) A collection made by gleaning.

(n.) Cleaning; afterbirth.

黛娜编辑

• He could glean nothing from their faces; they might as well have been of stone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It was an occupation in which he would be apt to glean much gossip and many stray scraps of information, but little that would tend to broaden his mind. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The speckled fowls were so numerous that Mr. Brooke observed, Your farmers leave some barley for the women to glean, I see. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Its evolution from the ancient harp, gleaned by man from the wind, that grand old harper, who smote his thunder harp of pines, is too long a story to here recite in detail. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A visit to the boy suggested itself as a means of gleaning new particulars; though it might be quite unproductive. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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