lean on

phrasal verb

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lean on somebody/something

to depend on somebody/something for help and support依靠，依賴（…的幫助和支持） synonym rely
- He leans heavily on his family.他在很大程度上依賴他的家庭。
- Britain leans heavily on Europe for trade.在貿易上英國嚴重依賴歐洲。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- heavily
- lightly
- slightly
- …
preposition
- across
- against
- from
- …
adverb
- heavily
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to try to influence somebody by threatening them對…施加壓力；威脅；恐嚇
- The government has been leaning on the TV company not to broadcast the show.政府一直給電視公司施加壓力，不準播放此節目。