Then they have to pay high prices to buy food for themselves during the "lean season,"

VOA: special.2009.11.17

If you look at increasing weight as you go from left to right on this axis, lean people, overweight people, and obese people, the risk goes way up for death from cardiovascular diseases.

从X轴左边到右边,随着体重不断上升,精瘦的,超重的,以及肥胖人群,心血管疾病的致死风险也随之增加

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Lean Kha was a soldier with the communist Khmer Rouge in the early 1980s and admits he killed wildlife for food and trade, including 14 tigers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

"I saw all these ships waiting out there,I am guessing, waiting their turns to load and unload the cargo, so,I said,Why do the ships come into the harbor?" Why not have the harbor go out there and bring the goods in?'" Researchers describe the mobile harbor as a lean, light system for unloading container ships even if the coastal area is too shallow for them to dock.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04