winnow
vt. 扬; 辨别; 选择; 除去
If you winnow a group of things or people, you reduce its size by separating the ones that are useful or relevant from the ones that are not.
Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three.
行政官员将候选名单筛减至3人。
1. the act of separating grain from chaff;
1. separate from chaff;
2. blow on;
3. treat by exposure to a current of air so that waste matter is eliminated;
4. remove by a current of air;
We should winnow out the errors in logic.
我们应该排除逻辑中的错误.
I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land.
7我在境内各城门口(或作我在这地边界的关口),用簸箕簸了我的百姓,使他们丧掉儿女.
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.
I winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land.
我在境内各城门口(或作我在这地边界的关口),用簸箕簸了我的百姓,使他们丧掉儿女.
And tonight, we winnow them down to 100, and finally to number one.
今晚, 我们精选了100句电影台词,逐一展示, 直到排名第一的台词.