refiner
US // (rɪˈfaɪnə) //
炼油师,精炼师,炼油厂,炼油工
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n.名词 noun
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- : a person, device, or substance that removes impurities, sediment, or other unwanted matter from something
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Examples
And therefore, though he innovated a little, he may justly be called a great refiner of the Roman tongue.
The same may be said, in a more transitory sense, of Flaubert, the great renovator and refiner of Romanticism.
Upton, the refiner, has a smoky chimney, that sets him and all the neighbourhood by the ears.
The refiner takes then an assay with a small ladle, and when it cools, breaks it in a vice, to see the state of the copper.
Here also perished our Saxon refiner and discoverer of inestimable riches, as it was left amongst some of us in undoubted hope.
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