| 词组 | distill, distil |
| 释义 | distill, distil Distill and distil are variant spellings, and although the spelling distil is used in contemporary writing, distill is found far more often. The word may be used with any one of various prepositions, but it occurs most frequently with either from or into: • ... in 600 pages of conference documentation, distilled from many thousands of pages —Barry Commoner, Harper's, June 1972 • ... has distilled into these two volumes a lifetime of research and thought —Allan Nevins, "Book-of-the-Month-Club News," December 1945 Other prepositions used with distill are out of, through, and to: • ... the preciousness of existence may be distilled out of its very precariousness —Frederick Morton, Saturday Rev., 22 May 1954 • Most filmmakers distill life through the conventions of fiction —Susan Rice, Media & Methods, March 1969 • Distilled to its essence, the Marshall Plan is simply this —Clarence B. Randall, Atlantic, October 1950 Of is a much less common alternative to from and out of • ... the place had an overmastering silence, a quiet distilled of the blue heavens —John Buchan, Castle Gay, 1930 |
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