We need to sift out the applications that have no chance of succeeding.

我们需要剔出那些成功无望的申请。

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Police officers have continued to sift through the wreckage following yesterday's bomb attack.

警官们继续细查了昨天炸弹袭击后留下的残骸。

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The company allowed members of the research team to sift out stones not deemed to be of gem quality.

这家公司允许研究小组的成员筛除被视为没有达到珠宝质量的石头。

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Dozens came to the beach to sift through piles of clothes and textiles,truck tires and personal belongings.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

The process will only take 10 years to sift through 150, 000 finalists, the site said.

CNN: Heather Kelly,

Hit up the source below to sift through the minutiae of these behind-the-scenes changes.

ENGADGET: Windows 8 streamlines printing, puts old architecture on the chopping block

Meanwhile, investors are left to sift through the fund's wreckage, trying to determine how much is left.

NPR: Hedge Fund Maven Madoff Falls Hard