winnowing
v. 扬( winnow的现在分词 ); 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;
The petrel came winnowing in from afar on the sea.
海燕从遥远的地方振翼飞来.
He is winnowing wheat now.
他现在正在簸小麦.
Fitful gusts came winnowing through the smells of many distant fields.
不定的风吹来,含带着许多远野的香气.
She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field.
她一整天站在地里筛糠.
The girl is winnowing the chaff from the corn.
那个女孩正在簸去谷壳.