[VERB 动词]筛(面粉、沙子等) If you sift a powder such as flour or sand, you put it through a sieve in order to remove large pieces or lumps.
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Sift the flour and baking powder into a medium-sized mixing bowl.
将面粉和发酵粉筛入中等大小的搅拌碗中。
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[VERB 动词]细查;详审 If you sift through something such as evidence, you examine it thoroughly.
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Police officers have continued to sift through the wreckage following yesterday's bomb attack...
警察继续仔细检查昨天炸弹袭击后留下的残骸。
Brook has sifted the evidence and summarises it clearly.
布鲁克已经仔细审查过证据并将其总结得一清二楚。
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sift/sɪft; NAmEsɪft/verb1[transitive ]siftsth to put flour or some other fine substance through a sieve/sifter筛(面粉或颗粒较细的物质)◆Sift the flour into a bowl.把面粉筛到碗里。2[transitive , intransitive ]to examine sth very carefully in order to decide what is important or useful or to find sth important 细查;详审siftsth ◆We will sift every scrap of evidence.我们将细查每一点证据。siftthrough sth ◆Crash investigators have been sifting through the wreckage of the aircraft.调查坠机事件的专家一直在仔细检查飞机残骸。3[transitive ]siftsth (out) from sth to separate sth from a group of things 区分;挑选;精选◆She looked quickly through the papers, sifting out from the pile anything that looked interesting.她很快地翻了一下那摞文件,把所有看着有趣的东西都拣了出来。PHRASAL VERBˌsift sth↔ˈout1to remove sth that you do not want from a substance by putting it through a sieve筛除;筛去◆Put the flour through a sieve to sift out the lumps.把面粉过筛,除去面块。2to separate sth, usually sth you do not want, from a group of things 剔除;淘汰◆We need to sift out the applications that have no chance of succeeding.我们需要剔出那些成功无望的申请。siftsiftssiftedsiftingsift/sɪft; NAmEsɪft/
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siftsift /sɪft/ verb [transitive]
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1to put flour, sugar etc through a sieve or similar container in order to remove large pieces2 (also sift through) to examine information, documents etc carefully in order to find something out or decide what is important and what is not: Police are sifting through the evidence.sift out phrasal verbto separate something from other thingssift out from It’s hard to sift out the truth from the lies in this case.
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