Friends are tea, help me filter impetuous, save the quiet.

朋友是茶，帮我过滤浮躁，储存宁静。

youdao

For me, it's more of a background filter that helps me answer the question: Am I doing something that's important?

对我而言，这些原则更像生意背后的滤器，帮我解决疑问：我是否在做重要的事情？

youdao

I don't want to filter all their emails, since occasionally they email me with something legitimate (a non-forward).

考虑到这些邮件并非全都一无是处，我也不想把它们全部过滤掉。

youdao

"They tried to use me as a filter, " Abraham says.

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There had to be some system of selecting who was going to have those slots and not giving them to government propaganda stations editorially controlled from outside the country strikes me as a reasonable enough filter.

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This used to make me crazy because the point of a spam filter is to make spam go away.

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