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To sift means to pass something, usually flour or a powder, through a fine screen (a sieve) so lumps are removed and it becomes smooth. Figuratively, to 'sift through' something means to look carefully through a large amount of information or objects to find what's useful or important.
篩(粉狀物)；(比喻)仔細查閱、篩選
同家族的字
- sievethe tool used to sift things — a screen with small holes that lets fine bits through
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
siftverb/sɪft/
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To sieve or strain (something).
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To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
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archaicdatedTo examine (something) carefully.
- As neere as I could ſift him on that argument, On ſome apparant danger ſeene in him, Aym‘d at your Highneſſe, no inueterate malice.
- But if we still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience ? this implies a new question.
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To examine (something) carefully.
- Sifting through the work of great orators like Philostratus and Quintilian they identify numerous examples of classical irony, metaphor, comparison, etc. which are missing in Paul.
- Britain’s police are especially zealous. Officers spend thousands of hours sifting through potentially offensive posts and arrest 30 people a day. Among those collared were a man who ranted about immigration on Facebook and a couple who criticised their daughter’s primary school.
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datedcomputingengineeringmathematicsTo move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
siftnoun/sɪft/
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An act of sifting.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。