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VERB
（身體）傾斜，傾側
When you lean in a particular direction, you bend your body in that direction.
例句
Eileen leaned across and opened the passenger door...
艾琳傾身把后座門打開。
He leaned forward to give her a kiss...
他前傾吻了她一下。
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VERB
（使）倚；（使）靠
If you lean on or against someone or something, you rest against them so that they partly support your weight. If you lean an object on or against something, you place the object so that it is partly supported by that thing.
例句
She was feeling tired and was glad to lean against him...
她正感到有些疲倦，因此很高興可以靠在他身上。
Lean the plants against a wall and cover the roots with peat...
把植物靠墻擺放，用泥煤蓋住根部。
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ADJ-GRADED
（壯健而）清瘦的
If you describe someone as lean, you mean that they are thin but look strong and healthy.
例句
Like most athletes, she was lean and muscular...
跟大部分運動員一樣，她身形清瘦，肌肉結實。
She watched the tall, lean figure step into the car.
她看著那個瘦高個兒上了車。
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ADJ-GRADED
（肉）瘦的
If meat is lean, it does not have very much fat.
例句
It is a beautiful meat, very lean and tender.
這塊肉很好，又瘦又嫩。
...the leanest ground beef you can get.
買得到的最瘦的碎牛肉
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ADJ-GRADED
（組織）精簡的，精干的
If you describe an organization as lean, you mean that it has become more efficient and less wasteful by getting rid of staff, or by dropping projects which were unprofitable.
例句
The value of the pound will force British companies to be leaner and fitter.
英鎊目前的匯率將迫使英國公司厲行精兵簡政。
...cutting corporate flab and building leaner companies.
削減企業贅肉，建立瘦身型公司
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ADJ-GRADED
蕭條的；不景氣的
If you describe periods of time as lean, you mean that people have less of something such as money or are less successful than they used to be.
例句
...the lean years of the 1930s...
蕭條的20世紀30年代
With fewer tourists in town, the taxi trade is going through its leanest patch for 30 years.
隨著城里游客的減少，出租車行業正遭受30年來最不景氣的時期。