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). => wind
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."
雙語例句
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。
來自柯林斯例句
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.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
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.