chaff 的定义
- the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.
- straw cut up for fodder.
- worthless matter; refuse.
- the membranous, usually dry, brittle bracts of the flowers of certain plants.
- Also called window. Military. strips of metal foil dropped by an aircraft to confuse enemy radar by creating false blips.
chaff 近义词
waste
joke, ridicule
更多chaff例句
- The wheat from the chaff will get separated very, very quickly here.
- You’re trying to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.
- There is good free content on YouTube—including on Perrigo’s or Albrecht’s feeds—but you have to sift through a lot of chaff.
- If Apple follows through, iOS14 will be a test of marketers’ and advertisers’ mettle, and will likely separate the wheat from the chaff.
- For CinemaSins, the cookie cutter approach often takes much of the chaff, but leaves behind the wheat.
- I say you're no good as an interview because no one is very good at sorting the wheat from the chaff.
- Yankees tend to shrug off such numbers as largely the chaff drifting down.
- Your miner friends notice the stiffness of your walk and chaff you about it.
- For a graduate seminar at Georgetown, the chaff-to-wheat ratio is disturbingly high.
- Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.
- Though the amount played for is serious, a good deal of rather bald conversation and chaff goes on.
- Don't chaff, Shirtings; you're a very good fellow, you know, but I'm not in a laughing humour.
- I'm told that the old men when they were together would chaff each other about their children.
- The soft easy chaff bed gave her more of rest and satisfaction than if it had been eiderdown.