发音：[sɪft]
例句：
- To sift means to go through especially to sort out what is useful or valuable.
- The police sifted tons of evidence for clues.
- My mother had been sifting through the mail and placing envelopes on the table next to her after she glanced at them.
- He insisted that all questions be submitted to him in advance, and he sifted through the cards searching for those he chose to answer.
- Now a team of engineers are sifting through tonnes of sand and soil from the whole beach as part of a £10.5m project to remove all the hazardous material.
解释：
- Sift这个单词为动词，其表示“to go through something especially to sort out what is useful or valuable”这一含义，既“筛选/挑选/过滤”，与“sift/filter”这些单词构成近义词。最直观的含义为通过“sieve（筛子）”过滤、筛选，如Sift the lumps from the sugar.（把糖的块状物筛选出来）。
- 日常生活环境中，当我们在一大堆票据中去找出某一月的水电费收据时，我们可以使用 “sift through the mail looking for the bills.” 另外，当招生官在一大堆申请文档中去找寻优秀申请者时，我们可以使用“sift through the hundred applications to find the best candidates.”
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Due to the vast amounts of data stored, technology is needed to sift through it, make sense of it, and draw conclusions from it.（由于存储了大量数据，因此需要技术来筛选它，理解它并从中得出结论。）
–Technology - Investors have been sifting through the first batch of company earnings this quarter to monitor the chances of a recession, the state of consumer spending and the outlook for the markets.（投资者一直在筛选本季度第一批公司收益，以监测经济衰退的可能性、消费者支出状况和市场前景。）
–Business - Marcus used the Python coding language to create a program that sifts through a vaccine clinic website, looking for certain keywords and tables that would indicate new appointments.（Marcus使用Python编码语言创建了一个程序，该程序可以筛选疫苗诊所网站，寻找某些指示新约会的关键字和表格。）
–Technology
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