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

• It's a way to weed out candidates, but companies know that students are still going to apply.
  这是一种铲除求职者的途径，但是公司知道学生仍然会申请职位。
• 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。
• Please help me to weed out those yellow flowers that keep growing among the onions.
  请帮我拔去长在洋葱中间的那些黄花。
• 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。
• Weed out traitors from the army.
  肃清军队中的汉奸分子。
• Other benefits such as dole money could be frozen and there will be a huge push to weed out fiddlers.
  其他像失业救济金这样的补贴可能会被冻结，大家会努力把骗子清除掉。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。