winnowing

英 [ˈwɪnəʊɪŋ]

美 [ˈwɪnoʊɪŋ]

v.  簸，扬，风选(以去掉谷壳)
winnow的现在分词

COCA.39935

柯林斯词典

• VERB 筛选;遴选
  If youwinnowa group of things or people, you reduce its size by separating the ones that are useful or relevant from the ones that are not.
  1. Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three.
     行政官员将候选名单筛减至3人。

英英释义

noun

• the act of separating grain from chaff
  1. the winnowing was done by women
  Synonym:winnowsifting

双语例句

• The new conservatism reflects the winnowing of those expectations.
  新盛行的保守主义反映出这些乐观预期已经被大浪淘尽。
• He is winnowing wheat now.
  他现在正在簸小麦。
• When the winds are light, the air in a valley becomes stagnant and stratified. Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
  当微风时，谷地的空气就会停滞和层化。让发丝随着簸谷的风轻飘；
• Foreign competition sifts and sorts firms, winnowing out the weakest firms and leaving a greater share of the market to their stronger rivals.
  国外竞争使企业进行筛选和分类，那些弱小的企业就被踢出，更大的市场份额就会留给他们强劲的对手。
• Or I was attracted by the passage of wild pigeons from this wood to that, with a slight quivering winnowing sound and carrier haste;
  或者我给一群野鸽子吸引住了，看它们从这一个树林飞到那一个树林，带着一些儿嗡嗡的微颤的声音，急遽地飞过；
• The winnowing continues in fits and starts throughout adolescence, then picks up again in middle age.
  这场筛选一阵一阵地继续，然后开始贯穿整个青春期。
• Despite this winnowing process, accelerated by the recession, it is a colossal mistake to predict the newspaper industry's imminent death.
  经历了这样的过程后，加快了经济的衰退，对于即将灭亡的报刊业来讲，这是一个巨大的失误。
• In the winnowing chamber, broken plastic mixture by its own gravity and wind blowing effect, because the density of different, lighter plastic blown to a distant, while heavier plastic is blown to a nearby, so as to achieve the initial separation effect.
  在风选室中，破碎的塑料混合物受到自身重力和风力的吹拂作用，因密度的不同，较轻塑料被吹到较远处，而较重塑料则被吹到较近处，从而达到初步分选效果。
• Study on Cereal Winnowing by Gas-Solid Fluidization
  气固流态化用于谷物风选的研究
• The girl is winnowing the chaff from the corn.
  那个女孩正在簸去谷壳。