Sieve

(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'.

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• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• If the devil sifts you through a hair sieve, he won't find one. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• 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. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• 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·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Powder very fine, mix, and pass through a sieve. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.

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