winnow

英 [ˈwɪnəʊ]

美 [ˈwɪnoʊ]

v.  簸，扬，风选(以去掉谷壳)

现在分词：winnowing　过去分词：winnowed　第三人称单数：winnows　过去式：winnowed　

GRE

BNC.37778 / COCA.21960

短语动词

短语用例

winnow sb/sth out (of sth)

• 筛选；遴选；选拔
  to remove people or things from a group so that only the best ones are left

牛津词典

verb

• 簸，扬，风选（以去掉谷壳）
  to blow air through grain in order to remove its outer covering (called the chaff )

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:winnowingsifting

verb

• blow away or off with a current of air
  1. winnow chaff
• select desirable parts from a group or list
  1. cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence
  2. winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants
  Synonym:cull out
• separate the chaff from by using air currents
  1. She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field
  Synonym:fan
• blow on
  1. The wind was winnowing her hair
  2. the wind winnowed the grass

双语例句

• But throught practice one can tell the true from the false. winnow truth from falsehood
  通过实践我们即可区别真伪。去伪存真，辨别真假
• Yahoo did not confirm its use, but reports indicate that its high-profile leader, Marissa Mayer, is relying on the stack ratings model to winnow out employees and fire them& the "yank" part of the equation.
  虽然雅虎并没有确认这一点，但大量报道显示，这家公司行事高调的掌门人玛丽莎•梅耶尔正在依靠堆垛式评级模型筛除、解雇一些员工&这一评估方程式的“封杀”部分。
• Winnow the husks from the corn
  用风选法除去谷物的壳
• Study on spam filters based on Winnow algorithm
  基于Winnow算法的垃圾邮件过滤器研究
• Splice Site Identification Based on Improved Winnow Algorithm
  基于改进的Winnow算法的剪接位点识别
• Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three.
  行政官员将候选名单筛减至3人。
• The Winnow algorithm used in our system is described in detail and a set of experiments is carried out to verify its effect.
  文中详细描述了在我们的过滤系统中所使用的Winnow算法以及所进行的一系列证实其有效性的实验。
• In this paper, we describe the regularized Winnow algorithm for Chinese named entity recognition. The experiment results for a large corpus are presented.
  本文针对中文的命名实体识别问题，描述了正则化Winnow算法，并给出了基于较大规模语料库的实验结果。
• The new X prize is designed to winnow the genetic wheat from the chaff.
  新设立的这个X奖是为了在茫茫基因大漠中“披沙拣金”。
• A building for storing threshed grain. winnow the husks from the corn
  谷仓储存脱粒后的谷物的建筑物