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单词 distill
释义
distill
verb
US(also mainlyUKdistil)
us
/dɪˈstɪl/uk
/dɪˈstɪl/
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distillverb(LIQUID)

[T]
to make aliquidstrongerorpurerbyheatingit until itchangesto agasand thencoolingit so that itchangesback into aliquid:
Somestrongalcoholicdrinkssuch aswhiskeyare made by distilling.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Spirits & distilling
  • absinthe
  • amaretto
  • applejack
  • benedictine
  • bitter
  • cordial
  • creme
  • crème de menthe
  • curaçao
  • distil
  • kirsch
  • liqueur
  • malt
  • malt whisky
  • mother's ruin
  • small-batch
  • spirit
  • toddy
  • vodka
  • whisky
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distillverb(INFORMATION)

[Tusually passive]formal
to get or show only the mostimportantpartof something:
Over 80hoursoffootagehave been distilledintothese 40minutes.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Summaries and summarizing
  • abridgment
  • abstract
  • biodata
  • catch-all
  • curriculum vitae
  • executive summary
  • gist
  • handout
  • in shortidiom
  • recapitulation
  • resume
  • shorthand
  • shorthand forsomethingidiom
  • story
  • sum(something/someone)up
  • synoptic
  • the long and the short of itidiom
  • TLDR
  • to cut a long story shortidiom
  • trot
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Related word

distillation
(Definition ofdistillfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

distill| American Dictionary

distill
verb[T]
us
/dɪˈstɪl/
chemistry
toheataliquiduntil itchangesto agasand then make itliquidagain bycooling:
distilledwater/whiskey
To distill something said or written is toreduceit butkeepthe mostimportantpart:
She distilled thereportinto aparagraph.
(Definition ofdistillfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdistill

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Sometimes he wrote as if the main objective was todistillthe wisdom of successful directors.
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The effect of this thinking on bioethics is todistillone from one's circumstances, from one's actual life.
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Particularly urgent is the need todistillthe most critical ingredients, from existing promising interventions, that reduce parents' risk for maltreatment and promote positive parenting.
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The discussion in this section is my attempt todistillthe key themes and objections in what has become a voluminous literature.
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The design recipe presented in this section distills our past success in building complex scenes.
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This article distills the content of that course into a few simple examples that show the elegance of functional programming for teaching this group of students.
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In this review, the aim is todistillcurrent knowledge about stroke, with emphasis on pragmatic but evidence-based practice, and to highlight areas of remaining uncertainty.
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Finally, wedistillthe guidelines for developing ontologies from the ontology engineering community into a set of best practices, and compile a list of design principles for evaluating existing ontologies.
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Wildes rejects consumer, contractual, and client models because they tend todistillout essential humanistic and communal elements of healthcare, neglecting the degree to which patients remain vulnerable and dependent.
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Although interest in fillers has grown amazingly, we definitely need more detailed descriptions of filler production and development, in order to be able todistillindividual and language specific trends.
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In section 4, we discuss issues relevant to the representation of lambda terms anddistillfrom this an encoding for them that can be used in an actual implementation.
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I know of parties who import other things which theydistillfor various technical purposes.
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Democratic accountability is a tried, tested and practised means of ensuring that the heady mixtures which the security services candistillbehind closed doors are held in check.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Like poetry, quality childrens literature compresses language, distills feeling, evokes scenes, and can be experienced on multiple levels.
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She helpeddistillthe inmate complaints into a list of demands.
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