refine

英 [rɪˈfaɪn]

美 [rɪˈfaɪn]

v.  精炼; 提纯; 去除杂质; 改进; 改善; 使精练

现在分词：refining　过去分词：refined　过去式：refined　第三人称单数：refines　

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牛津词典

verb

• 精炼；提纯；去除杂质
  to make a substance pure by taking other substances out of it
  1. the process of refining oil/sugar
     炼油的 / 炼糖的工序
• 改进；改善；使精练
  to improve sth by making small changes to it

柯林斯词典

• VERB 提炼;精炼
  When a substanceis refined, it is made pure by having all other substances removed from it.
  1. Oil is refined to remove naturally occurring impurities.
     油经过提炼去除天然存在的杂质。
• VERB 改进，改善，改良（过程、理论或机器）
  If something such as a process, theory, or machineis refined, it is improved by having small changes made to it.
  1. Surgical techniques are constantly being refined.
     外科手术的技术不断得到完善。

英英释义

verb

• make more complex, intricate, or richer
  1. refine a design or pattern
  Synonym:complicaterarifyelaborate
• make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of
  1. refine a method of analysis
  2. refine the constant in the equation
• attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying
  1. many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet
• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
  1. refine one's style of writing
  Synonym:polishfine-tunedown
• reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state
  1. refine sugar
  Synonym:rectify
• treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition
  1. refine paper stock
  2. refine pig iron
  3. refine oil

双语例句

• To promote the development of the development zone, and a staff members have more drudgery and refine system, a vigil for more than a year, hard work, and achieved great success.
  为推动开发区的发展，他和开发区干部职工一道，熬更守夜苦干，细化制度，勤奋工作，一年多来，成绩斐然。
• With the power of advanced technique, we evolve and refine principle.
  我们用先进技术的力量改进和发展原则。
• The feature can refine this requirement to be: "System should use a relational database".
  那么功能就要提炼概括这个需求为：“系统必须使用一个关系型数据库”。
• By making our thinking visible, they can help us to understand, refine and communicate our ideas.
  通过使我们的思维可见，来帮助我们理解，精炼和传达我们的想法。
• We will continue to refine these processes to better study and understand the sophisticated nature of herbal medicines.
  我们会进一步地精炼这些过程来更好地学习和理解中药复杂的机理。
• Works of taste can refine the mind.
  高雅的作品能陶冶心灵。
• The friction stir technology can refine grain and enhance rigidity of metals.
  利用摩擦搅拌技术还能细化金属材料的晶粒和增强硬度。
• I was able to help refine their workflows and build custom tools.
  我能够帮助他们精炼工作流程，建立客户工具。
• Obtain and refine market and customer demand, responsible for product requirement management and product defining tasks.
  获取和提炼市场和用户需求，负责产品的需求管理和产品定义工作；
• You can see from this discussion of why the team needs to refine and review requirements that we have inadvertently defined what we mean by review and refine.
  从团队为什么需要细化和评审需求的讨论中，可以看出我们已经无意中定义了评审和细化。