Sieve
[sɪv]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles.
(verb.) distinguish and separate out; 'sift through the job candidates'.
(verb.) check and sort carefully; 'sift the information'.
錄入:莱尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.
(n.) A kind of coarse basket.
黛朵錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Bolt.
整理:奥拉
解釋/意思:
n. a vessel with a bottom of woven hair or wire to separate the fine part of anything from the coarse: a person who cannot keep a secret.—v.t. to put through a sieve: to sift.
康斯坦丁校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of a sieve, foretells some annoying transaction will soon be made by you, which will probably be to your loss. If the meshes are too small, you will have the chance to reverse a decision unfavorable to yourself. If too large, you will eventually lose what you have recently acquired.
手打:谢莉
例句/造句/用法:
- Everybody was walking about St Peter's and the Vatican on somebody else's cork legs, and straining every visible object through somebody else's sieve. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- If the devil sifts you through a hair sieve, he won't find one. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- His mother's fortune (seven hundred a year) fell to him when he came of age, and ran through him, as it might be through a sieve. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The log-cabin we were in had lost the roof entirely on one side, and on the other it was hardly better then a sieve. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In the _making_ of _shot_, the old method was to pour the melted metal through a sieve, and allow it to drop from a tower 180 feet or more in height. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Powder very fine, mix, and pass through a sieve. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
德布斯錄入