You can purify the water by distilling.

你可以通过蒸馏来净化水。

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Water can be made pure by distilling it.

水可以通过蒸馏而提纯。

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So desperate was Japan, it even tried to make aviation fuel by distilling pine tree roots.

走投无路，绝望透顶的日本，甚至企图通过蒸馏松树根制造航空燃油。

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Perhaps unexpectedly, the effects of rhetorical flourishes and verbal facilities on voters can be better understood by distilling them down to numbers.

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Although Scotch whisky must be made in Scotland, only about one fifth of the total output is made by distilling companies which are based in Scotland.

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Such was my introduction to aquavits (or aquavites or akvavits), high-proof liquors that have been made in Scandinavia since at least the 15th Century by distilling fermented potato or grain mash and flavoring it with savory, herbaceous ingredients.

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