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小词详解 | glean
glean 英 [ɡliːn] 美 [ɡliːn]
It suggests that equity investors can best glean insight into a firm by quizzing its chief executive.
据此,股权投资者应该可以通过询问首席执行官来深入了解一家公司的情况。
——《经济学人》By her own account, Marie Kondo was an unusual child, poring over lifestyle magazines to glean organizing techniques and then stealthily practicing them at home and school, confounding her family and bemusing her teachers.
用近藤麻里绘自己的话说,她打小就与众不同——研读生活方式杂志,收集整理技巧,然后悄悄在家和学校实践它们,令家人和老师们迷惑不解。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 设法从各种来源获取(信息)
拾散落的稻穗
glean stray ears of rice
这些密密麻麻的数据是通过多次研究收集得来的。
These thickets of figures have been gleaned from a number of studies.从我费劲收集到的信息来看,情况不妙。你可能需要硬下心来将坏消息告诉她。
From what I was able to glean, the news isn't good. You may need to swallow hard and tell her the bad news.
我弄不清楚他的真实意思。
I could not glean what he really meant.
He seemed to know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned certain information in a certain district about a family which had disappeared.
他仿佛已经知道底蕴,有时他还遮遮掩掩地说,已有人在某地调查过某个消失了的人家的某些情况。
cull: select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources derive: obtain something from (a specified source) extract: derive (an idea or the evidence for it) from a body of information