柯林斯詞典winnow /?w?n??/ (winnowing,winnowed,winnows) 1. V-T If you winnow a group of things or people, you reduce its size by separating the ones that are useful or relevant from the ones that are not. 篩選; 遴選[文學(xué)性] Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three. 行政官員將候選人名單篩減到三人。 返回 winnow劍橋詞典to blow the chaff (= the outer coverings ) from grain before it can be used as food 揚(yáng)，簸（谷物） formal to reduce a large number of people or things to a much smaller number by judging their quality 篩選，挑選 A list of 15 applicants has been winnowed down to three. 15名候選人已經(jīng)篩選到只剩3人。 a winnowing process 篩選過(guò)程 返回 winnow