| 词汇 | sift |
| 释义 | sift verb[ T ] uk /sɪft/ us /sɪft/ siftverb[T] (SEPARATE)to put flour, sugar, etc. through a sieve (= wire net shaped like a bowl) to break up large pieces: 筛（面粉、糖等） When the cake is cooked, sift some icing sugar over the top of it.蛋糕做好后，在上面筛上一些糖粉。 Preparing food batch cooking biga bind breadmaking butter buttered clarify glaze glazed grate ingredient jerk rehydrate restuff rice rustle something up scoby stir toss whip siftverb[T] (EXAMINE)to make a close examination of all the parts of something in order to find something or to separate what is useful from what is not: 仔细检查;筛查 The police are sifting the evidence very carefully to try and find the guilty person.警察在非常仔细地检查证据，试图找出罪犯。 After my father's death, I had to sift through all his papers.父亲去世后，我必须查看整理他的所有文件。 The police are trying to sift out the genuine warnings from all the hoax calls they have received.警方试图从他们接到的各种恶作剧电话中分辨出真正的报警电话。 Analysing and evaluating adjudication analysable analyse analyser analyst assign dive have the measure of someone/somethingidiom inspect inspection interpret interpretable interpretive microscope reinspection reinterpret reinterpretation reinvestigate reinvestigation weigh sift | American Dictionarysift verb us/sɪft/ siftverb (SEPARATE)[ T ] to shake a powdered substance through a sieve in order to break lumps into very small grains: Sift some powdered sugar on top of the cake. siftverb (EXAMINE)[ I/T ] to make a close examination of something: [ T ]The police are carefully sifting the evidence. [ I ]I had to sift through all my papers. Examples of siftsift Nevertheless, it may be claimed that the facts collected have been carefully sifted, the references conscientiously verified, and the opposing theories honestly presented. He offers as a metaphor for the encounter of cultures that of a ' sifting ' : what happened to classical culture in passing through a biblical filter ? The entire mixture was shaken thoroughly for 5 min and sifted through a coarse sieve of 250 mm pore size mesh. By carefully sifting through a wide range of archival accounts (including mission accounts), the author has performed a very valuable service. The pupae were then sifted and transferred to normal rearing cages and treated in the standard manner as above. Observations were performed every 6 h by sifting the sand to record developmental duration. Arguments are carefully explained and weighed and the findings of a wide range of research studies are sifted and summarised. Note that even though the instantaneous signals contain large-amplitude random velocity fluctuations, the phase-averaging technique sifts out the coherent structure signatures. Much more evidence will have to be sifted before these issues can be settled definitively. All those appointed were experienced at sifting through complex issues and coming to reasonable conclusions based on evidence presented to them. Withers sifts the evidence carefully to show the dynamics of this transformation. Still, he shows here once again his uncanny ability in sifting through documentary material with an eye for the revealing episode and the telltale behaviour. Surely, then, the theological assumptions that are of most interest are those that remain after the process of sifting and checking for consistency has been completed. One of the intuitive charms of this fast disk-based eigenvector-eigenvalue algorithm is that it literally sifts through the image information while finding the main eigenimages of the data set. The usual methodology is to uphold the dictionary definitions while sifting through the historical archive for patterns or behavior that conform to or contradict the model. See all examples of sift These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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