winnowing
v. 揚( winnow的現在分詞 ); 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;
The petrel came winnowing in from afar on the sea.
海燕從遙遠的地方振翼飛來.
He is winnowing wheat now.
他現在正在簸小麥.
Fitful gusts came winnowing through the smells of many distant fields.
不定的風吹來,含帶著許多遠野的香氣.
She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field.
她一整天站在地裡篩糠.
The girl is winnowing the chaff from the corn.
那個女孩正在簸去穀殼.