weed out

英 [wiːd aʊt]

美 [wiːd aʊt]

清除; 剔除; 淘汰

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 清除;剔除;淘汰
  If youweed outthings or people that are useless or unwanted in a group, you find them and get rid of them.
  1. He is keen to weed out the many applicants he believes may be frauds...
     他急于剔除那些他认为是冒牌货的申请人。
  2. A small group of neo-Nazis have infiltrated the ranks. We must weed them out as soon as possible.
     队伍中混入了一小撮新纳粹分子，我们必须尽快将其清除。

英英释义

verb

• remove unwanted elements
  1. The company weeded out the incompetent people
  2. The new law weeds out the old inequities
  Synonym:comb out

双语例句

• Carefully we examined each of the copies to weed out the soiled ones& another effort that required hours.
  我们仔细检查每一本杂志，把沾染了污迹的剔除掉&这同样需要花费数小时。
• So you have to make things rough for them weed out the weenie trees early on.
  所以你得把它们的生长环境变得艰苦些，尽早淘汰那些弱不禁风的树。
• Read over your composition and weed out every sentence that is not about the subject.
  把你的作文再念一遍，把与主题无关句子统统删去。
• To also uses a score to weed out candidates for recruiters.
  Path.to也利用评分系统来替招聘人员筛选人才。
• These features will quickly weed out the non-hackers who do not want to play right.
  这样的特性能够很快的淘汰那些不想公平玩游戏的非黑客玩家。
• Weed out traitors from the army.
  肃清军队中的汉奸分子。
• We must weed out the traitors in our midst!
  我们必须清除我们中间的叛徒！
• So all of the cases are already handled, and any branches to weed out extra teardown steps will only serve to slow down the default case.
  所以所有情况都已经得到了处理，清除额外的结束步骤的任何分支只会减慢对默认情况的处理。
• He said last year that he would weed out weaker businesses and has already closed or sold 19.
  去年他曾表示将砍掉较弱的业务部门，迄今他已关闭或出售了19个业务部门。
• It might keep them honest and it might weed out the incorrigible ones.
  或许会让他们老实点，说不定还可以清除掉那些死不悔改的法官。