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

• To placate the Parliament and the opposition, the government raised the bar for citizenship. Strict due diligence standards were set to weed out money launderers and criminals.
  为了安抚议会和反对派，政府提高了获得公民身份的门槛，设定了严格的尽职调查标准，以剔除洗钱者和犯罪分子。
• 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。
• Doing this exercise enabled me, in many cases, to immediately weed out the unqualified candidates.
  通过这些测验就可以，在大多数情况下能够很快的剔除不符合要求的候选人。
• 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。
• The inbred females are apparently able to weed out sperm from kin that would lead to less fit offspring.
  显然，近亲繁殖的雌性能够剔除来自近亲的精子，以免造成不够健康的后代。
• 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。
• They encourage internal competition as the way to weed out the weakest.
  他们鼓励内部竞争，从而淘汰组织的残兵败将。
• In June the board and the GAC at last agreed on a procedure to weed out unwanted domains.
  六月，董事会和政府咨询委员会（GAC）最终达成一致，将除掉不需要的域名。
• 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。
• 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。