English主要词典
distil
Universal Words
(AmE also distill) verb (-ll-) [VN]
1 ~ sth (from sth) to make a liquid pure by heating it until it becomes a gas, then cooling it and collecting the drops of liquid that form:
to distil fresh water from sea water * distilled water
2 to make sth such as a strong alcoholic drink in this way:
The factory distils and bottles whisky.
3 ~ sth (from / into sth) (formal) to get the essential meaning or ideas from thoughts, information, experiences, etc:
The notes I made on my travels were distilled into a book.
distillation noun [C,U]:
the distillation process * The movie is a perfect distillation of adolescence.
