2 (also sift through)EXAMINE to examine information, documents etc carefully in order to find something out or decide what is important and what is not 细查,详查,严密检查〔信息、文件等〕
Police are sifting through the evidence.
警方在筛查证据。
3sift something ↔ outphrasal verbphr vSEPARATEto separate something from other things 挑选出,筛选
from
It’s hard to sift out the truth from the lies in this case.