I was on the point of chaffing him on his state.

准备打趣他两句。

4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

4 恶人不是这样、乃像糠秕被风吹散。

" I remember before we were married he used to potter about with a paint-box. But you never saw such daubs. We used to chaff him. He had absolutely no gift for anything like that. "

" 我记得在我们结婚以前他常常带着个颜料盒到处跑。可是他画的画儿要多难看有多难看。我们常常打趣他。他对这种事可以说一点才能也没有。"

" Come off it, Roy, " I said. " I'm too old a bird to be caught with chaff. Spit it out" .

" 瞎说了，罗伊，" 我说。 " 我是个老于世故的人，你可得了我。 还是爽爽快快地说出来吧。"

This makes it lighter for baking especially if it's been in the dry larder for a while and it removes any bugs or moths or bits of chaff that may have flown in from the mill.

这样过筛可以使面粉在烘焙时更轻，特是如果面粉在干燥的食品柜里了一段时间，过筛可以去除面粉里面的任何虫子、飞蛾或从磨坊飞进来的碎糠。

But if you want to encourage resignations and end up with more wheat than chaff, it helps to have a compelling vision of the future.

但是如果你鼓励员工辞职，最后有更多强者而非弱者，那么有一个说服力强的未来愿景是有帮助的。

Something to separate the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff, the mesons from the pi-mesons, the quarks from the quacks.

来看看你们是男人，还是男孩，是粮食，还是糟糠，是介子还是 π 介子，真夸克（基本粒子之一）还是庸医。

When I had got the grain home, I had to thresh it, part the grain from the chaff, and store it up.

当我把谷子带回家的时候，我要脱粒，把谷子从糠秕中分出来，存起来。

Then, he caught sight of a messy flower hanging on a leaf with a withered bean chaff.

然后，一片杂乱的已经枯萎、结豆了的豌豆花映入他的眼帘。

But Passepartout persisted in chaffing him by asking him if he made much by his present occupation.

他也随和着路路通哈哈大笑了一阵。这时，路路通就高兴地问他：" 您这种职业是不是出息很大？"

And chaff and dust blew over everything.

谷壳和灰尘吹过一切。

As I told you, the chaff is the protective coating.

正如我告诉过你的， 谷壳是保护层。

Their massive threshing drums pound and shake the stalks, separating the grain from the chaff.

它们巨大的脱粒滚筒敲打和摇晃着秸秆，将谷物从壳中分离出来。

That hull is made from glumes -- tough chaff that protects the grains.

那层壳是由颖片组成的——这是一种坚韧的壳，用来保护谷粒。

I knew Rutherford well enough to chaff him about this, and he laughed.

我很了解卢瑟福， 可以拿这件事逗他， 他笑了。

And that's where we separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

这就是所谓的去芜存菁。

Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.

愿他们如风前的糠秕，如暴风刮去的碎稭。

It was like a, it was darkness in that I didn't know how to parse, you know, what is this thing that's my faith and what is, what's the wheat and what's the chaff and how do I get through it?

那就像一片黑暗， 我不知道该如何分辨，你知道，什么是我的信仰， 什么是有价值的东西，什么是无用的东西， 我该如何从中走出？

If this be true, for I pretend not to affirm it, it is as if a corn farmer expected to defray the expense of his cultivation with the chaff and the straw, and that the grain should be all clear profit.

如果这是真的，因为我假装不肯定，这就好像一个玉米农希望用谷壳和稻草来支付他的耕种费用，而谷物应该都是明显的利润。

Drummle upon this, informed our host that he much preferred our room to our company, and that as to skill he was more than our master, and that as to strength he could scatter us like chaff.

德鲁姆尔听到这番话后，向我们的主人表示，他更喜欢我们的房间，而不是我们这些人，声称就技艺而言，他远胜我们之上，至于力量，他能把我们像糠秕一样抛撒。