- When you refine something, you make it better. Whether it's sugar or an essay, refining it requires fixing its flaws.
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- vt. 精炼，提纯
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1. Their daily work is to refine crude oil.
他们每天的工作是精炼原油。
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2. Works of taste can refine the mind.
高雅的作品能陶冶心灵。
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3. the process of refining oil, the process of refining sugar
炼油的╱炼糖的工序
- refine (v.) 1580s, of metals, c. 1590 of manners, from re-, intensive prefix, + obsolete fine (v.) "make fine," from fine (adj.) "delicate." Compare French raffiner, Italian raffinare, Spanish refinar. General and figurative sense is recorded from 1590s; of sugar, from 1610s. Related: Refined; refining.
re·fine AWL / rɪˈfaɪn ; NAmE rɪˈfaɪn / verb 1 refinesth to make a substance pure by taking other substances out of it 精炼；提纯；去除杂质 ◆ the process of refining oil/sugar 炼油的╱炼糖的工序 2 refinesth to improve sth by making small changes to it 改进；改善；使精练 refine refines refined refining re·fine / rɪˈfaɪn ; NAmE rɪˈfaɪn /
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