提炼

提煉

tíliàn

verb HSK 7 #17,620

Meanings

1 to refine
2 to extract
3 to distill

Characters

to extract; to lift

to refine; to smelt

Examples

从石油中可以提炼出汽油。

Cóng shíyóu zhōng kěyǐ tíliàn chū qìyóu.

Gasoline can be refined from crude oil.

他善于从生活中提炼写作素材。

Tā shànyú cóng shēnghuó zhōng tíliàn xiězuò sùcái.

He is good at distilling writing material from life.

Tips

usage

提炼 can be used both literally (refining substances) and figuratively (distilling ideas or themes from experience).

Stroke Order

提 tí

炼 liàn