Refine
[rɪ'faɪn]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; 'refine a method of analysis'; 'refine the constant in the equation'.
(verb.) attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying; 'many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet'.
(verb.) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; 'refine sugar'.
(verb.) treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; 'refine paper stock'; 'refine pig iron'; 'refine oil'.
編輯:奥斯本--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
(v. t.) To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.
(v. i.) To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
(v. i.) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
(v. i.) To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
校對:玛拉
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Purify, clarify, fine, defecate.[2]. Cultivate, polish, make elegant.
v. n. [1]. Become pure, be clarified.[2]. Improve, make improvement.[3]. Be over-nice, affect nicety, split hairs, make useless distinctions.
校對:莱利亚
解釋/意思:
v.t. to separate from extraneous matter: to reduce to a fine or pure state: to purify: to clarify: to polish: to make elegant: to purify the manners morals language &c.—v.i. to become fine or pure: to affect nicety: to improve in any kind of excellence.—p.adj. Refined′ made fine: polished: highly cultivated.—adv. Refin′edly in a refined manner: with affected elegance.—ns. Refin′edness Refine′ment act of refining or state of being refined: purification: separation from what is impure &c.: cultivation: elegance: polish: purity: an excessive nicety; Refin′er one who refuses anything: a piece of mechanism for refining as a gas purifier; Refin′ery a place for refining; Refin′ing the act or process of refining or purifying particularly metals.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Its tendency would be to raise and refine her mindand it must be saving her from the danger of degradation. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- And all the while, research studies their results, artists express subtler perceptions, critics refine and adapt the general culture of the times. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Century after century their artizans could perfect their skill, and their men and women refine upon refinement. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- My dear Harriet, you must not refine too much upon this charade. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- There was a brief interval, they heard a door close, then Maxim said, in his refined voice: 'That's all right. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The pulp, duly beaten, refined, screened, and diluted with water, is then piped into the flow-box of the Fourdrinier machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Notwithstanding these foibles, and various others needless to mention--but by no means of a refined or elevating character--how pretty she was! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Yorke, she rose, she grew tall, she expanded and refined almost to flame. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I like your nice manners and refined ways of speaking, when you don't try to be elegant. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I should ask Mrs. Gradgrind's pardon for strong expressions, but that she knows very well I am not a refined character. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Oh, if you are for high notions and double-refined sentiment, I've naught to say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The most practical methods of refining salt today are known as the Grainer, Vacuum Pan and Alberger systems. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The blood is largely used for making albumen for photographic uses, as well as in sugar refining, for meat extracts, and for fertilizers. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I am in too sorry a state to understand what you are refining on, said the wretched man. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The imagination is not fed, but is held down to recapitulating, cataloguing, and refining what is already known. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It is not subject to the refining and expanding influences of the more accurate and comprehensive material of direct instruction. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The compounded rubber goes from the mixing mills to refining mills, to be prepared for the calenders. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This batch of material goes back for another crushing, so that everything is subjected to an equality of refining. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The manufacturers first supply the neighbourhood, and afterwards, as their work improves and refines, more distant markets. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Nothing refines like affection. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Literature refines, science deepens, various devices extend it. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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