Sift
[sɪft]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; 'sift the flour'.
(verb.) move as if through a sieve; 'The soldiers sifted through the woods'.
杰里手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
(v. t.) To separate or part as if with a sieve.
(v. t.) To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
艾达整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Bolt.[2]. Scrutinize, probe, fathom, sound, investigate, canvass, discuss, examine critically, look into, follow up, inquire into.
爱丽丝錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Screen, analyze, scrutinize, robe, examine_critically, investigate, winnow,sort
ANT:Confound, fuse, confuse, amalgamate, conglomerate, compound
格斯編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to separate with or as with a sieve: to examine closely.—n. Sift′er one who or that which sifts.
手打:撒迪厄斯
例句/造句/用法:
- I shall sift the matter to the bottom, and put a stop to such pranks at once. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- That's why I want to sift the matter to the bottom. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Satan desires to have ye, and sift ye as wheat. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The meal was then bolted, and the tailings, consisting of bran, middlings and adherent flour, again sifted and re-ground. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- When salt is sifted it is ready for packing in bags or packages suitable for shipment to the consumer. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Coal-dust, vegetable-dust, bone-dust, crockery dust, rough dust and sifted dust,--all manner of Dust. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But, eyes no less rapacious had watched the growth of the Mounds in years bygone, and had vigilantly sifted the dust of which they were composed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- We have carefully sifted the statement he has addressed to us; and here it is at your service. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- About sixty men were sifted to get twenty. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- What others may have done, bearing directly or collaterally on the subject, in print, is carefully considered and sifted to the point of exhaustion. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Miss Ophelia lifted out the sifting papers of sweet herbs. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Consequently the testing and sifting function of education only shows to which one of three classes an individual belongs. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Ducks, like whales, subsist by sifting the mud and water; and the family has sometimes been called Criblatores, or sifters. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Now, it's too late for me to begin shovelling and sifting at alphabeds and grammar-books. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Because I suppose, sir, that what was found, was found in the sorting and sifting. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It is one of those cases where the art of the reasoner should be used rather for the sifting of details than for the acquiring of fresh evidence. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The notes I have here made will want sifting, and you can, if you please, extract them under my direction. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- 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.
校對:特伦斯