英语释义

1. to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air

2. to get rid of (something undesirable or unwanted) remove —often used with out
winnow out certain inaccuracies
— Stanley Walker

3. separate, sift
an old hand at winnowing what is true and significant
— Oscar Lewis

4. select

5. to treat (something, such as grain) by exposure to a current of air so that waste matter is eliminated

6. to free of unwanted or inferior elements pare

7. narrow, reduce
winnowed the field to four contenders

8. to blow on fan
the wind winnowing his thin white hair
— Time

9. to separate chaff from grain by fanning

10. to separate desirable and undesirable elements

11. a device for winnowing

12. the action of winnowing

13. a motion resembling that of winnowing

14. to remove (people or things that are less important, desirable, etc.) from a larger group or list to make (a list of possible choices) smaller by removing the less desirable choices

15. to remove (the unwanted coverings of seeds) from grain by throwing the grain up in the air and letting the wind blow the unwanted parts away

16. to remove (as waste from grain) by a current of air

17. to sort or separate from a larger group

片语

winnowed paddy簸过稻谷

sun-dried and well winnowed晒干风凈

well-winnowed风凈

winnowed sand簸选砂

ratio of winnowed paddy簸谷比率

winnowed sediment簸选沉积物

winnowed overfall精选溢流

英汉例句

• Wave action then winnowed the clay.

  波浪作用是将粘土淘走。

• Rival teams were given a set of specification and deadlines, and through a series of stages the teams presented prototypes, and contest supervisors winnowed the field.

  所有竞争者在拿到产品规格和项目期限后，在经过一系列阶段后，竞争者提出设计原型，竞赛的监督者再逐步淘汰。

• They will thus accumulate without being winnowed out and will eventually be present in overwhelmingly lethal numbers.

  于是后一类有害突变逐渐积累而不是被除去，最终将达到远超过致命的数量。

• Strobel winnowed down her wardrobe and toiletries to precisely that number.

  为了正好达到这个要求，Ms。Strobel大量消减了行头和化妆品。

• The utility model is also provided with a set of winnowing device, and grains are winnowed and collected by the negative pressure of an air intake of a blower.

  它还有一套风运装置，由风机的进风口负压实现粮食的风运收集。

• Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three.

  行政官员将候选名单筛减至3人。

• One hundred finalists from 47 countries were winnowed from over 1,700 entries.

  100位入围者从1700多个参赛选手中脱颖而出。

• The best of them are winnowed out to pursue further study and eventually assume positions of public leadership and responsibility.

  学习能力最佳的人，会被精选出来深造，最后承继，公共领袖的职位与责任。

• The secondis that 35 years have winnowed the technological wheat from the chaff.

  其次，35年的时间解决了技术上的难题。

• The computer kicked out 36 highly compatible matches for Mr. Kim, before veteran matchmakers from the company winnowed those down to a final four.

  电脑为金正银选择了36位非常合适的婚配对象，然后该公司的资深媒人们又从中选出了最终的四位对象。

• In several caves, scenes show daily village life: figures bathing, wheat being winnowed and preparations for a wedding ceremony.

  在几个石窟中有日常乡村生活的场面：人们洗澡、扬谷、筹备婚礼。

• Those who have brains and courage come through all right. Those who haven「t are winnowed out.

  那些有勇气、有才智的人会平安度过，而没有的人将会被淘汰掉。

• To start with, they found hundreds of thousands of differences, but many of these could be winnowed away.

  开始的时候，他们发现几十万个不同之处，但其中很多被筛选了下去。

• People rarely deal with raw data but consume them in processed form, once they have been aggregated or winnowed by computers.

  人们很少直接处理原始数据，而是通过计算机聚集或筛选后应用。

• A pure elastic heaven hangs over all, as if the impurities of the summer sky, refined and shrunk by the chaste winter」s cold, had been winnowed from the heavens upon the earth.

  天空清明，好像有弹性似的挂在上面；看来夏天的天空，经过坚贞的寒冬加以提炼、加以收缩之后，所有的杂质都被筛到地上，现在的天空是经过凈化的了。

• Given the necessity for a Web-based UI and a fast response time over somewhat uncontrollable network bandwidth and traffic conditions, the following available choices were winnowed down in this order.

  考虑到需要一个基于Web的UI，以及要对难以控制的网络带宽和流量作出快速响应，下面是根据这些要求逐级筛选。

• The finalists, which come from 47 countries, were winnowed from 1,750 applications proposing innovative but practical ways to protect the poor and vulnerable.

  来自47个国家的最终入围项目是从1750份提出保护贫困和弱势人口方案的申请项目中筛选出来的。

• Emboldened by a Web site that challenges consumers to live with just 100 personal items, Ms. Strobel winnowed down her wardrobe and toiletries to precisely that number.

  某网站让消费者们挑战一下仅用100件个人物品生活，这更鼓励了他们的想法。为了正好达到这个要求，Ms .Strobel大量消减了行头和化妆品。

• Before the entrepreneurship program, he had a list of almost 200 projects he might pursue. Today, he has winnowed that list to two priority projects.

  在参加创业课程前，他有一张高达200个项目的开发计划表，现在他筛选到只剩两个优先项目。