单词	over-refine
释义	over-refine /əʊvərɪˈfʌɪn / verb [with object] Refine (something, especially food) too much: carbohydrate is often over-refined... The writer sometimes tended to over-elaborate and over-refine his subject's language in later versions and revisions. After years of polluting, processing and over-refining our food, we are suffering from adverse health problems and, worse still, we are inflicting them on our children. Over-refining foods involves the addition of unhealthy ingredients. Derivatives over-refinement /ˌəʊvərɪˈfʌɪnm(ə)nt / noun ... Shyness, over-refinement, physical fear and revulsion: this, he seems to understand, is the repertoire of an all-round loser, denying him the compensatory feeling of heroic virtue or a conviction that he is fighting to save his soul. In the vigorous and philosophical introduction to his book, he remarked severely: ‘a certain over-refinement of the art of cookery is tending to appear among civilised people.’ Could they have been warnings against over-indulgence and over-refinement that might weaken Manchu culture?
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