tease out

英 [tiːz aʊt]

美 [tiːz aʊt]

套取，套出，巧妙获得（信息或答案）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 套取，套出，巧妙获得(信息或答案)
  If youtease outinformation or a solution, you succeed in obtaining it even though this is difficult.
  1. They try to tease out the answers without appearing to ask...
     他们试图不动声色地套出答案。
  2. There had to be an answer — he was sure he could tease it out if only he had time.
     一定会有答案——他肯定，只要他有时间就一定能弄个清楚。

双语例句

• Look as she might, she could not tease out any clear distinctions.
  尽管她下了许多工夫，却依然找不到任何明确的性别差异。
• To tease out that relationship, Crout says he will need to study patients over a long period of time, watching for both periodontal disease and memory loss.
  为梳理这层关系，克劳特说他需要对病人进行长期的研究，观察牙周病及记忆力衰退。
• John List, a leading light in the field of experimental economics, recently carried out an experiment designed to tease out some of the motives for giving.
  实验经济学的领军人物约翰李斯特（JohnList）最近进行了一项旨在揭示人们捐助动机的实验。
• There is also a growing market for personality questionnaires seeking to tease out the sort of social situations in which a candidate feels most comfortable.
  性格调查问卷市场也在不断增长，这些测试旨在找出候选者感觉最舒适的社交场合。
• To tease out the relationships between sleep, starvation and survival, the researchers deprived fruit flies of both food and sleep.
  为了找到睡眠、饥饿和生存之间的关系，研究人员同时剥夺了果蝇的食物和睡眠。
• "It's difficult to tease out what is actually happening, but I think this is something that does need to be looked at, because it has implications for healthcare resources," he said.
  “要弄清实际情况到底是如何很困难，但我想这是需要关注的一个问题，因为对医疗资源来说这有重要意义，”他说。
• Further research is warranted to tease out whether mood or medication use is the primary driver of this phenomenon or whether there may be a synergistic effect at play.
  进一步的研究是有必要，以此来理清情绪或药物的使用是否是这种现象的的驱动力，以及是否有可能是一个协同效应在起作用。
• Several studies have suggested melanoma and other skin cancers run in families, but it can be difficult to tease out the difference between the influence of genes and environment.
  许多研究表明黑色素瘤和其他皮肤癌具有家族性，但很难证明这种现象是基因的作用还是环境的作用。
• The workers have to tease out the wool before they can use it for weaving.
  工人必须把羊毛梳理后才能用它织布。
• One can also use these index numbers in data analysis, using each country as a data point, to tease out correlations and even causalities.
  人们还可以把这些指数用在数据分析中，将每个国家作为数据点，弄清彼此的关联，甚至其中的因果关系。