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To refine something means to make it purer, cleaner, or better by removing the parts you don't want. In factories, raw materials like oil or sugar are refined to remove impurities and turn them into a usable, purer product. In everyday use, you refine an idea, a plan, or a skill by making small improvements to it over time, step by step, until it's better — you refine your writing by editing it again and again.
精煉;（逐步）改進
組成re- (again, thoroughly) + fine, here meaning "pure" or "delicate" (not the "okay" meaning of fine).
同家族的字
- refinerya factory where raw materials like oil are refined
- refinementa small improvement made while refining something
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
refineverb/ɹɪˈfaɪn/
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To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
- to refine gold
- to refine iron
- 2
To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
- 3
To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.
- to refine someone's manners
- to refine a language
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To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
- My dear Harriet, you must not refine too much upon this charade.—You will betray your feelings improperly, if you are too conscious and too quick, and appear to affix more meaning, or even quite all the meaning which may be affixed to it.
- Adjust the volume, tweak the contours, refine the timing and, if need be, fiddle with the setting, and the hoariest yuck-fest can seem as dewy as a morning in May. Examples of tales told ticklingly are in unusual abundance here, with comedies for every taste within the mainstream of London theater.
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To make nice or subtle.
- to refine thought
- to refine someone's language
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。