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Перевод: sifting

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просеивание; грохочение; анализ ; посыпание
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Тезаурус:

1. After months of sifting through scores of reports from observers at sea and on dry land, the geologist in charge of the Dutch investigation, R.D. Verbeek, was able to piece together a comprehensive account of the events of the two fateful days, Sunday 26 and Monday 27 August.
2. (Double sifting of the flour traps more air and helps make the cake lighter).
3. Firemen sifting through the ashes had heard the click of bangles.
4. It had lain undiscovered for years among the papers of the Grove family (then of Wiltshire, now of Dorset), through which Hawkins was sifting as he researched Hardy's subsequent relationship with Agnes Grove, Harriet's kinswoman.
5. When you replace the receiver after calling them, you get caught up at once by all the other pressing demands on your time, while they, in some cases, may be left sitting in a silent room, turning over everything you have said, and sifting it eagerly for confirmation of your real affection and concern for them.
6. More than a decade ago you could have chosen the best nylon line from those manufactured as easily as sifting maggots from casters, there were so few good ones and so many bad ones.
7. At Batavia, the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh, the sky was clear, but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets.
8. Bragg was contentedly puffing his pipe, and mentally sifting through the facts they had so far obtained, when the door burst open and Inspector Cotton strode in.
9. Some of the decisions now open to us require a careful sifting of information and balancing of the pros and cons.
10. The older I get, the more efficient I become at sifting out the rubbish.
11. Do you spend hours sifting through old blues records?
12. Then another line developed from the main line of succession of bony-jawed ray-fin fish, which had a tougher fin structure useful for sifting through seabed mud.
13. Present in the second book as the occupant of an Iranian hotel room sifting through his papers, photographs and cassettes, Kapuscinski recites the history of the region, which has thrust the Shah of Shahs into the sand in the posture of the statue of the "King of Kings" in Shelley's tyrannophobe poem.