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VERB
蒸餾;用蒸餾法提取
If a liquid such as whisky or water is distilled, it is heated until it changes into steam or vapour and then cooled until it becomes liquid again. This is usually done in order to make it pure.
例句
The whisky had been distilled in 1926 and sat quietly maturing until 1987...
這種威士忌是在1926年通過蒸餾提取的，爾后靜置到 1987年才釀熟。
You can't actually drink the water from the marshland. But you can distil it...
沼澤地的水不能飲用，但是可以將它蒸餾凈化。
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VERB
提取(植物的)精華;提煉
If an oil or liquid is distilled from a plant, it is produced by a process which extracts the most essential part of the plant. To distil a plant means to produce an oil or liquid from it by this process.
例句
The oil is distilled from the berries of this small tree.
油是從這種小樹的漿果中提煉出來的。
...the art of distilling rose petals...
提取玫瑰花瓣精油的技巧
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VERB
精煉，濃縮（想法等）;吸收…為一部分
If a thought or idea is distilled from previous thoughts, ideas, or experiences, it comes from them. If it is distilled into something, it becomes part of that thing.
例句
Reviews are distilled from articles previously published in the main column...
述評是從先前刊登在主要專欄的文章中提煉出來的。
Eventually passion was distilled into the natural beauty of a balmy night...
最后激情融入了美麗宜人的夜色中。