The other day I talked about the word garble and explained that at first it was used to mean to sort the wheat from the chaff.

以前我解释过garble(混淆)这个词，它最早的意思是将小麦从碎谷壳里分离出来。

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17his winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

他手里拿着簸箕，要扬净他的场，把麦子收在仓里，把糠用不灭的火烧尽了。

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And if you're hiring a new SEO or seeking interview questions for someone to bring onto the team, feel free to use these to separate the wheat from the chaff.

无论你是招聘一个新的seo或者寻找面试问题将某人带入团队里面，你都可以使用如下的问题来甄别优劣。

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So separating the wheat from the chaff means keeping what is valuable and rejecting what is worthless.

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Hone your ability to quickly sift the wheat from the chaff and address what must be answered on an urgent basis.

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The purity of the supply and demand equation in the muni market and its resulting reflection on interest rate levels is where the wheat will be separated from the chaff and what investors need to embrace as their new bellwether.

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But still, reviewers depend on publishers acting as winnowers, sorting out the wheat from the chaff, and at least attempting to make sure that they are sent books they are actually interested in.

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