As the rounds passed, online voters weeded out silly slang like cattywampus, skedaddle, and chuckhole.

随着轮次推进，在线投票者淘汰了诸如“cattywampus（歪斜）”、“skedaddle（溜走）”和“chuckhole（坑洼）”等滑稽俚语。

I raked, I weeded, I put things in order, as if I were possessed.

我耙了地，除了草，整理了东西，使神差一样。

And they weeded out people who were listed as having anorexia or other conditions that alter body fat.

他们剔除了那些被列为厌食症或其他改变身体脂肪疾病人。

Living things evolve by accumulating genetic changes, which are then weeded out or preserved through a process of natural selection.

生物通过累积基因变异而实现进化，之后在自然选择过程中被淘汰或保留。

Miraz weeded them out. Belisar and Uvilas were shot with arrows on a hunting party: by chance, it was pretended.

弥若兹把他们都除掉了。伯力沙和犹威拉思在一场狩猎中被箭射死了：而这被伪装成为意外。

A focus on costs has weeded out wasteful practices and improved operational efficiency.

对成本关注淘汰了浪费做法，提高了运营效率。

And that initial screening is where the first lot gets weeded out.

而初步筛查就是第一轮筛选淘汰地方。

On his arrival in England—or rather, in London—Champneis had weeded out his wardrobe.

Champneis 抵达英国（或者更确切地说， 抵达伦敦）后， 已经清理了他衣橱。

On their tour of the garden, Dickon noticed where Mary had weeded.

在花游览过程中，迪肯注意到了玛丽除草地方。

The weak have been weeded from our herd.

弱者已被从我们牛群中剔除。

) The Academy's governors weeded out inactive voters and invited a greater diversity of film-makers to join.

奥斯卡理事们淘汰了不活跃选民， 并邀请了更多种类电影制作人加入。

The garden with its rows of corn, bright-yellow squash, butter beans and turnips was well weeded and neatly fenced with split-oak rails.

里束平地种着一行行玉米，又黄又亮南瓜、豆、萝卜，没有丁点儿杂草，四周是橡树枝条做成篱笆，显得整整齐齐。

A tilled, fertilized, watered, weeded garden provides growing conditions very different from those on a dry, unfertilized hillside.

耕耘、施肥、浇水、除草花所提供生长条件与干燥、未施肥山坡上生长条件非常不同。

Over time, populations evolve as traits that help them survive are typically selected, and traits that make it harder to survive are usually weeded out.

随着时间推移，种群会不断进化，因为有助于其生存特征通常会被选择，而使其更难生存特征通常会被淘汰。

But if those mutations don't offer big advantages right away, they get weeded out, and body plans keep looking basically the same.

但如果这些变异一开始没有带来明显优势，它们就会被淘汰， 身体结构基本上保持不变。

I've struggled for food and for money and I've weeded and hoed and picked cotton and I've even plowed until I can't stand it another minute.

我曾经为吃用拼命挣扎过，我拼命拔草，锄地，摘棉花，甚至扶犁耙，直到连一分钟也坚持不下去了为止。

Suellen never missed the opportunity to leave the plantation and give herself airs among people who did not know she weeded the garden and made beds.

苏伦从不放过离开农场到邻居们中去炫耀自己机会，因为人们还不知道她近来常在家里拔草起床呢。

Connections that are used are kept and strengthened, while under-used ones are weeded away, creating a brain that is both fine-tuned to its environment and energy efficient.

正在使用脑连接被保留了下来并增强，不太使用脑连接会被除掉，发育成一个完美适配环境又合理消耗能量大脑。

I had sweet-peas planted on the fence one year and often worked and weeded among them as he watched me a few feet away.

有一年我在篱笆上种了甜豌豆， 当他在几英尺外看着我时， 我经常在它们中间工作和除草。

In these notes, Mr Studwell wanders into the weeds of development (quite literally: Japanese rice is weeded nine times a year, he writes).But he never gets lost.

在这些脚注中，Studwell 偶尔会提到一些阻碍经济发展“杂草”（从字面意义上来说，他写到日本水稻一年需要进行九次除草）。但Studwell 从未偏离主题。