winnow

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

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。

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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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