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LEAN

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lean¹ I. adjectiv

1. slab, slăbănog, uscăţiv, sfrijit.

2. (despre carne) slab.

3. sărac; calic;

lean years ani slabi / răi / neroditori.

4. (despre un minereu) sărac.

lean¹ II. substantiv

carne slabă.

lean² I. past şi part. trec. leant sau leaned verb A. intranzitiv

1. (against, on) a se sprijini, a se rezema (de);

to lean on one's elbow(s) a se rezema în cot;

to lean (up) against the wall a se rezema de perete, a sta rezemat de perete;

leaning against sprijinit / rezemat de;

to lean on an influenţial friend a se bizui / a conta pe un prieten influent;

(fig.) to lean on a broken reed a se sprijini / a se rezema de un pai.

2. (over, towards) a se apleca (spre), a înclina (spre) (despre un perete, o clădire etc.) a se înclina, a se apleca;

to lean to / towards an opinion a înclina spre o opinie.

lean² I. past şi part. trec. leant sau leaned verb B. tranzitiv

(against) a sprijini (de), a rezema (de);

to lean a ladder against the wall a sprijini / a rezema o scară de perete.

lean² II. substantiv

(to) înclinare, aplecare (spre).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Meg leaned against her mother, looking the image of despair, and Jo tramped about the room, calling Laurie names.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

There was Holmes’s Alpine-stock still leaning against the rock by which I had left him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We leaned toward each other, and before I knew it my arms were about her.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Mr. Micawber, leaning back in his chair, trifled with his eye-glass and cast his eyes up at the ceiling; but I thought him observant of Traddles, too, who was looking at the fire.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She seemed to lean toward him, to wait, and all his will fought to hold him back.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

"Well, John" (leaning out), "any news?"

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

He leaned back in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Now, then, Gretel,” she cried to the girl, “stir yourself, and bring some water. Let Hansel be fat or lean, tomorrow I will kill him, and cook him.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

When his head had disappeared, I leaned out to try and see more, but without avail—the distance was too great to allow a proper angle of sight.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

He leaned on his axe and thought a moment.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

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