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gleaning

/glee-ning/US // ˈgli nɪŋ //

拾荒,拾穗,捡拾,拾金不昧

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of a person who gleans.
    • : gleanings, things found or acquired by gleaning.

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Examples

  • In bat species that could both glean and hawk, gleaning behavior decreased and hawking increased when the researchers increased whitewater noise volume.

  • And after gleaning the data from those races, they “plan to scale up and go big in 2016,” says McKinnon.

  • One woman drove 50 miles home in the middle of the night after suddenly gleaning that her teen daughter was in trouble.

  • Two years ago, they began gleaning directly from farms to introduce more fresh produce into the diets of the people they serve.

  • This year they will also make an effort to involve people in the gleaning.

  • They now organize field gleaning trips for anyone willing to participate, regardless of religious affiliation.

  • All belonged to the first days in Egypt before he noticed anything; the mind worked backwards to their gleaning.

  • A throng of young girls, gleaning, followed the reapers and raked up the ears that fell.

  • One had lost all his little store of grain gathered from the gleaning, or bought by great privation for the winter's nourishment.

  • An eminent jurisprudist once remarked to me, "there is little gleaning to be done after Bradlaugh."

  • This gleaning of intellectual men are full of social life, or, rather, of an interest in the problems of social existence.