chaff

英 [tʃɑːf]

美 [tʃæf]

n. 谷壳; 糠; (作为牛饲料的)麦秸，干草
v. (友善地)开玩笑，取笑，打趣

现在分词：chaffing　过去式：chaffed　过去分词：chaffed　复数：chaffs　第三人称单数：chaffs　

BNC.23677 / COCA.25449

习惯用语

sort out/separate the wheat from the chaff

识别优劣；分清好坏；去芜存菁
to distinguish useful or valuable people or things from ones that are not useful or have no value

noun

谷壳；糠
the outer covering of the seeds of grain such as wheat , which is separated from the grain before it is eaten
（作为牛饲料的）麦秸，干草
straw (= dried stems of wheat ) and hay (= dried grass) cut up as food for cows

verb

谷糠;麸皮
Chaffis the outer part of grain such as wheat. It is removed before the grain is used as food.
PHRASE 分清良莠;去芜存菁
If youseparate the wheat from the chafforsort the wheat from the chaff, you decide which people or things in a group are good or important and which are not.
1. It isn't always easy to separate the wheat from the chaff.
  分清良莠并不总是很容易。

noun

foil in thin strips
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
Synonym:huskshuckstalkstrawstubble

verb

be silly or tease one another
1. After we relaxed, we just kidded around
Synonym:kidjollyjoshbanter

What is the chaff to the wheat?
糠秕怎能与麦子比较呢。
The chaff fired two phase boiler realizes overall process mechanized operation from feeding to tapping and reduces labor strength;
它实现了进料到出渣全过程的机械化操作，降低了劳动强度；
Yuan xian ( one of confucius'disciples) could not get even enough chaff and husks to satisfy his hunger, and lived hidden away in a wretched lane.
原宪不厌糟糠，匿于穷巷。（《史记》）
Modeling and Simulation of the Attenuation of Chaff Cloud to Guidance Radar Beam Waves
箔条云对制导雷达信号衰减效应建模与仿真
Research into The Jamming Efficiency of Corridor Chaff to MTI Radar
箔条走廊对MTI雷达的干扰效能研究
The wicked are not so, But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
诗1：4恶人并不是这样、像糠秕被风吹散。
Sparseness Analysis of Radar Echoes and its Application in Ship and Chaff Discrimination
雷达回波稀疏性分析及其在舰船与箔条云鉴别中的应用
Sift out the wheat from the chaff.
把小麦的壳筛出来。
Coconut chaff, peat soil and yellow soil are taken as the light medium for Eucalyptus rooted cuttings.
以椰糠和泥炭土、黄心土作为桉树扦插的轻型基质。
Sort out the wheat from the chaff.
把小麦从糠皮中拣选出来。