| 词汇 | winnowing |
| 释义 | winnowing present participle ofwinnow winnow verb[ T ] uk /ˈwɪn.əʊ/ us /ˈwɪn.oʊ/ to blow the chaff (= the outer coverings) from grain before it can be used as food扬，簸（谷物） formal to reduce a large number of people or things to a much smaller number by judging their quality: 筛选，挑选 A list of 15 applicants has been winnowed down to three.15名候选人已经筛选到只剩3人。 a winnowing process筛选过程 Removing the skin or seed from fruit & vegetables core hull pare peel pit pitted seed seeded shell shelling shuck skinless spud bashing stone stoned top top and tailidiom unpeeled unshelled winnow You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming and making smaller or less Examples of winnowingwinnowing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Flooring the barrancos are boulder and cobble gravel lags due to the winnowing of finer material. Quantities of cereals, pulses, and residues produced on each plot were weighed after threshing and winnowing at the end of the season. It is my impression that less time was spent on such activities as winnowing, levigating, and burnishing. In this region, women are also more involved in threshing and winnowing small grains, and (together with their male partners) in planting, harvesting and threshing. Yet winnowing frequently occurs without the presence of a classic momentum candidate. We postulate that this process reflects the further winnowing of the multiple-problem group from less deviant groups of males during adolescence. There is, in short, no evidence of a winnowing process, hence little evidence of a talent-matching process. Routes were distributed where they would be most profitable, winnowing the department's deficit so that it could credibly take other policy initiatives to the public. The first several episodes deal with the audition process and the winnowing down to the five boys from successive ranks first of twenty-five hopefuls, then of eight. Wheat harvesting involved two separate activities : reaping and the related task of threshing and winnowing. Usually, however, economists have recognized that it is implausible to treat all existing preferences as on a par for normative purposes, and have recommended at least some winnowing or correcting. That is why the winnowing process has been rigorous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whatever winnowing process is adopted to sift the chaff from the grain, it is bound to be arbitrary and unsatisfactory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A way forward can often be found by winnowing out those items which are genuinely confidential, firmly making it known that they are such. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the result of a very careful process of the winnowing of all possible suggestions for dealing with a matter of the greatest difficulty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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