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

随着轮次的推进，在线投票者淘了诸如“cattywampus（歪斜的）”、“skedaddle（溜走）”和“chuckhole（坑洼）”等滑稽的俚语。

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，好像鬼使神差样。

In the process, the government has weeded out tens of thousands of ghost employees, since the embezzlers who invented them could not open accounts in their names without a matching ID.

在这个过程中，政府清除了成千上万的内鬼，因为盗用公款的人，名不符实，无法开通帐户。

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.

正在使用的脑连接被留了下来并增强，不太使用的脑连接会被除掉，发育成个完美适配环境又合理消耗能量的大脑。

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 偶尔会提到些阻碍经济发展的“杂草”（从字面意义上来说，他写到日本的水稻需要进行九次除草）。但Studwell 从未偏离主题。

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.

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

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

园子里束平地种着行行的玉米，又黄又亮的南瓜、豆子、萝卜，没有丁点儿杂草，四周是橡树枝条做成的篱笆，显得整整齐齐。

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场狩猎中被箭射死了：而这被伪装成为意外。

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留。

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其他改变身体脂肪的疾病的人。

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的机会，因为人们还不知道她近来常在家里拔草起床呢。

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.

我曾经为吃的用的拼命挣扎过，我拼命拔草，锄地，摘棉花，甚至扶犁耙，直到连分钟也坚持不下去了为止。

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

对成本的关注淘了浪费的做法，提高了运营效率。

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

而初步筛查就是第轮筛选淘的地方。

Random changes in an organism's genome, some are seriously harmful and quickly weeded out by natural selection, but many are only mildly deleterious and do not much hamper an individual's chance of reproducing as long as conditions are good.

生物体基因组的随机变化，有些是严重有害的， 很快就会被自然选择淘，但许多只是轻微有害的， 只要条件良好， 就不会妨碍个体的繁殖机会。

So all modern humans now that do not have an exclusively African descent have about 2% Neanderthal DNA. It used to be more, but natural selection has weeded out deleterious Neanderthal mutations, and so it's about 2%.

所以现在所有没有纯非洲血统的现代人都有大约2%的尼安德特人DNA。 以前的比例更高，但自然选择淘了有害的尼安德特人基因突变，所以现在是大约2%。

I had always wanted a rose-bed, but since I had had to stand threateningly over previous workers to get the commonest flowers weeded and watered, it had seemed useless to attempt the care of roses.

我直想要个玫瑰床， 但由于我不得不威胁地站在以前的工人身上， 为最普通的花朵除草和浇水， 尝试照顾玫瑰似乎毫无用处。

She went from place to place, and dug and weeded, and enjoyed herself so immensely that she was led on from bed to bed and into the grass under the trees.

她从个地方走到另个地方，挖地除草，玩得很开心，以至于她从张床走到另张床，直拖到树下的草地上。

But then they work together because my chimp, when I've weeded a third of the garden, will get annoyed and say, why have you waited this long to do this?

但随后它们会协同合作，因为当我清理完花园的三分之时， 我的“猴子”会变得烦躁， 质问我：“为什么拖到现在才做这件事？ ” 并在我想着“拖延的人又不是我” 时，开始对我进行指责。

So you want to have all your beds weeded and all that sort of stuff and all the old dead bits cut back and your seeds starting to sow.

所以你要把所有的花床除草，处理好那些杂乱的东西，把所有枯死的部分剪掉，开始播种。