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精炼,净化,使优雅,使精练精炼,净化,推敲
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Refine \Re*fine"\ (r?*f?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Refined}
(-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Refining}.] [Pref. re- + fine to
make fine: cf. F. raffiner.]
1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from
impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from
extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine
gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
I will bring the third part through the fire, and
will refine them as silver is refined. --Zech. xiii.
9.
2. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant,
low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish;
as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the
taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.
Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges.
--Milton.
Syn: To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.
Refine \Re*fine"\, v. i.
1. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains,
Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines.
--Addison.
2. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
Chaucer refined on Boccace, and mended his stories.
--Dryden.
But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit
brightens! How the style refines! --Pope.
3. To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. ``He
makes another paragraph about our refining in
controversy.'' --Atterbury.
资料来源 : WordNet®
refine
v 1: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's
style of writing" [syn: {polish}, {fine-tune}, {down}]
2: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or
pattern" [syn: {complicate}, {rarify}, {elaborate}]
3: treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine
paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
4: reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from
extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine
sugar" [syn: {rectify}]
5: attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by
polishing or purifying; "many valuable nutrients are
refined out of the foods in our modern diet"
6: make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of;
"refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the
equation"
资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
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