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pass sth through a sieve
常用于烘焙，表示用筛子筛面粉。.
Pass the flour through a sieve to remove any lumps.
把面粉过筛，去除结块。
筛子；滤网；漏勺
sieves — plural of sieve
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
筛子；滤网；漏勺
A kitchen or similar tool with a mesh or perforated bottom used to separate larger particles from finer ones, or to separate solids from a liquid.
Pass the flour through a sieve to remove any lumps.
把面粉过筛，去除结块。
一种底部有网眼、格栅或其他孔洞的装置,用于将颗粒材料中的大小颗粒分离,或将固体与液体分离。
A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
筛子,用于分离粉末材料中的结块或对颗粒进行分级。
a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
一种物理或抽象的筛选过程,从较大的输入集合中滤除不需要的部分,以得到最终结果。
A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
范畴中态射的集合,其余域是该范畴中某个固定对象,且此集合在范畴中任意态射的前复合下封闭。
A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.
She poured the flour through a sieve to remove any lumps.
她把面粉过筛，以去除任何结块。
Use a fine sieve to strain the broth before serving.
上菜前用细筛过滤肉汤。
The gardener used a large sieve to sift the soil and remove small stones.
园丁用一个大筛子筛土，去除小石子。
常用于烘焙，表示用筛子筛面粉。.
Pass the flour through a sieve to remove any lumps.
把面粉过筛，去除结块。
sieve 在烹饪中也可指滤网、漏勺；fine sieve 指网眼细的筛子。
Strain the soup with a fine sieve to make it smooth.
用细筛把汤过滤，使其顺滑。
这是说明工具用途的常用句型，sieve 后接不定式表示目的。
You can use a sieve to separate the rice from the water.
你可以用筛子把米和水分离。
Not this
I need a sift to remove the lumps from the flour.
Use this
I need a sieve to remove the lumps from the flour.
sift 是动词，表示“筛、筛选”，不能用作名词；表达“筛子”这个工具时应用名词 sieve。此句需要宾语名词，故改用 sieve。
Not this
There are three sieve on the shelf.
Use this
There are three sieves on the shelf.
sieve 是可数名词，复数形式为 sieves。数量为三时，名词必须用复数形式，sieve 缺少 -s 是错误的。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
细筛子；细网筛
Pour the sauce through a fine sieve to remove the lumps.
把酱汁用细筛子过滤，去掉结块。
粗筛子
A coarse sieve quickly separates the larger stones from the sand.
粗筛子能很快把较大的石子从沙子中分离出来。
用筛子过滤；过筛
Strain the soup through a sieve before serving.
上桌前用筛子把汤过滤一下。
金属丝筛；钢丝筛
The laboratory uses a wire sieve to determine particle size.
实验室用金属丝筛测定颗粒大小。
面粉筛
She shook the flour sieve gently over the bowl.
她轻轻地在碗上方晃动面粉筛。
记性很差，像筛子一样留不住东西
I have a memory like a sieve; I forget people's names seconds after meeting them.
我的记性很差，刚认识的人没几秒就忘了名字。
像筛子一样到处漏（也指消息大量泄露）
The old boat leaks like a sieve, so we had to bail water the whole trip.
那条旧船到处漏水，整个行程我们都在不停地把水舀出去。
往筛子里倒水，徒劳无功
Saving money on this project is like pouring water into a sieve.
在这个项目上省钱就像往筛子里倒水一样徒劳。
筛子和沙子
The title of Part Two of Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, referencing a boy's futile attempt to fill a sieve with sand as a metaphor for the struggle to retain knowledge.
雷·布拉德伯里小说《华氏451度》第二部的标题，借一个男孩试图用筛子装满沙子的徒劳，比喻难以留住知识的挣扎。
Use sieves naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
sieve＝筛子：想画面——厨房里用网眼漏勺滤水，细渣从孔中漏下，大块留在勺里。
语域：neutral 常见场景：厨房烹饪、烘焙、园艺、实验室 sieve 作名词时通常指带网眼或孔洞的筛具，多用于厨房、烘焙、园艺或实验室等具体操作场景；在日常语境中语气中性，不算正式或俚语。
复数形式为 sieves。
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