distil

• 动词，指通过加热和冷却等过程提纯液体或提取某物的精华；也引申为提炼出最重要的部分。

A verb used to indicate the process of purifying or extracting the essential elements of something, often through heating and cooling, or metaphorically to extract the most important aspects.

1. Purify liquidB2formalscientific

   To heat a liquid until it becomes a gas and then cool it so that it becomes liquid again, in order to purify it or separate it from other substances.

   蒸馏

   • The laboratory distils water to remove impurities.
   • Whisky is distilled from fermented grain mash.
   • They distilled the seawater to make it drinkable.

   同义词clarifyfilterpurifyrectifyrefine

   反义词adulteratecontaminatepollute

2. Extract essenceC1formal

   To get the most important ideas or essence from a larger amount of information.

   提炼精髓

   • The author distilled years of research into a single book.
   • She distilled the complex theory into a simple explanation.
   • The report distils the key findings from the survey.

   同义词condensederiveextractglean