winnow
vt. 揚; 辨別; 選擇; 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.
行政官員將候選名單篩減至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.
我們應該排除邏輯中的錯誤.
I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land.
7我在境內各城門口(或作我在這地邊界的關口),用簸箕簸了我的百姓,使他們喪掉兒女.
You should winnow out the inaccuracies of this paper this afternoon.
你今天下午把這篇文章中不精確的內容刪掉.
I winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land.
我在境內各城門口(或作我在這地邊界的關口),用簸箕簸了我的百姓,使他們喪掉兒女.
And tonight, we winnow them down to 100, and finally to number one.
今晚, 我們精選了100句電影臺詞,逐一展示, 直到排名第一的臺詞.