(noun.) the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.).
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双语例句
The most practical methods of refining salt today are known as the Grainer, Vacuum Pan and Alberger systems. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The blood is largely used for making albumen for photographic uses, as well as in sugar refining, for meat extracts, and for fertilizers. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
I am in too sorry a state to understand what you are refining on, said the wretched man. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
The imagination is not fed, but is held down to recapitulating, cataloguing, and refining what is already known. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
It is not subject to the refining and expanding influences of the more accurate and comprehensive material of direct instruction. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
The compounded rubber goes from the mixing mills to refining mills, to be prepared for the calenders. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
This batch of material goes back for another crushing, so that everything is subjected to an equality of refining. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Commercially, charcoal is used on a large scale in the refining of sugars, sirups, and oils. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
Any future development, however elaborate it may be, is only an extending and a refining of this simple act of inference. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Electrolytic processes of refining copper are also largely used, as described in Farmer’s patent, No. 322,170, July 14, 1885. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
Except when the refining process of Art judiciously removes from them all resemblance to Nature, I distinctly object to tears. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.