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

• 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。
• We have to weed out unqualified applicants.
  我们必须淘汰不合格的申请人。
• He weed out one by one the book he do not want.
  他把不想要的书一本一本丢掉。
• As to western culture, we should absorb the good while weed out the bad.
  对待西方文化，我们应取其精华，去其糟粕。
• As part of their hiring processes, some companies give personality tests that seem designed to weed out introverts.
  比如，许多公司在招聘过程中进行的个性测试似乎存心就是为了淘汰内向性格的人而设。
• 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。
• So the office must take action to weed out abuse of the student system, it said.
  因此政府表示，必须采取一定措施来清除学生管理系统的缺陷与弊端。
• Weed out traitors from the army.
  肃清军队中的汉奸分子。
• Developers should specify filtering rules to weed out data they do not want.
  开发人员应该指定筛选规则来清除他们不想要的数据。
• 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。