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winnow

英['wɪnəʊ] 美['wɪnoʊ]
  • v. 吹开糠皮;把挑出来;精选
winnower winnowed winnowed winnowing winnows
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详细释义

Noun:
  1. the act of separating grain from chaff;

    "the winnowing was done by women"

Verb:
  1. separate the chaff from by using air currents;

    "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field"

  2. blow on;

    "The wind was winnowing her hair"
    "the wind winnowed the grass"

  3. select desirable parts from a group or list;

    "cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence"
    "winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants"

  4. blow away or off with a current of air;

    "winnow chaff"

双语例句

1. The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.
委员会若要取得成果,需要摈除不着边际的观点,提出更实际的建议。

来自柯林斯例句

2. You should winnow out the inaccuracies of this paper this afternoon.
你今天下午把这篇文章中不精确的内容删掉.

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3. And tonight, we winnow to 100 and finally to number one.
今晚, 我们精选了100句电影台词,一一展示,直到排名第一的台词.

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4. It's important to winnow truth from falsehood in scientific research.
在科研工作中去伪存真是很重要的.

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5. We should winnow out the errors in logic.
我们应该排除逻辑中的错误.

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    1. A device for winnowing grain.
      簸谷器; 风选机去糠的设备
    2. The girl is winnowing the chaff from the corn.
      那个女孩正在簸去谷壳。

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