释义 |
distilldis‧till, distil /dɪˈstɪl/ verb (past tense and past participle distilled, present participle distilling) [transitive] distillOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French distiller, from Latin stillare ‘to fall in drops’ VERB TABLEdistill |
Present | I, you, we, they | distil, distill | | he, she, it | distils, distills | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | distilled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have distilled | | he, she, it | has distilled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had distilled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will distill | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have distilled |
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Present | I | am distilling | | he, she, it | is distilling | | you, we, they | are distilling | Past | I, he, she, it | was distilling | | you, we, they | were distilling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been distilling | | he, she, it | has been distilling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been distilling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be distilling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been distilling |
- But it does distill the issue to the question on which tax policy should stand or fall: fairness.
- My task has been to simplify the subject without oversimplifying, to distill without losing essence.
- On the various shelves were set items of laboratory equipment: retorts, beakers, distilling tubes and burners.
- The essential is to keep on distilling down, and following ruthlessly the consequences of the dreams.
- The most notable of these were the silk, paper, sail canvas, and gin distilling industries.
- Water could be extracted by distilling or melting blocks of permafrost.
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