Sifting

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sift

塞西尔手打

• Miss Ophelia lifted out the sifting papers of sweet herbs. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Consequently the testing and sifting function of education only shows to which one of three classes an individual belongs. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Ducks, like whales, subsist by sifting the mud and water; and the family has sometimes been called Criblatores, or sifters. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Now, it's too late for me to begin shovelling and sifting at alphabeds and grammar-books. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Because I suppose, sir, that what was found, was found in the sorting and sifting. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• 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. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The notes I have here made will want sifting, and you can, if you please, extract them under my direction. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The discovery of this function must be employed as a criterion for trying and sifting the facts taught and the methods used. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

整理:米莉