• vt. 簸；把…挑出來；精選
• vi. 分出好壞；揚谷
• n. 揚谷；揚谷器

詞源同wind,風，風吹，引申詞義風選，用風吹掉谷殼。

winnow

winnow: [OE] Etymologically, to winnow grain is to separate it from the chaff by means of the ‘wind’. The verb was coined in the Old English period from wind. The same notion underlay Latin ventilāre ‘winnow’ (source of English ventilate), which was derived from ventus ‘wind’ (a relative of English wind).
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winnow (v.)

late 14c., from Old English windwian "to fan, winnow," from wind "air in motion, paring down," see wind (n.1). Cognate with Old Norse vinza, Old High German winton "to fan, winnow," Gothic diswintjan "to throw (grain) apart."

1. The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more practical proposals if it is to achieve results.

委員會若要取得成果，需要擯除不著邊際的觀點，提出更實際的建議。

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2. 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.

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3. And tonight, we winnow to 100 and finally to number one.

今晚, 我們精選了100句電影臺詞,一一展示,直到排名第一的臺詞.

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4. It's important to winnow truth from falsehood in scientific research.

在科研工作中去偽存真是很重要的.

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5. We should winnow out the errors in logic.

我們應該排除邏輯中的錯誤.

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