英语词汇“to search and sift”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. to search and sift (also to sift and search): to examine or investigate (something) in minute detail; (in early use) esp. to examine or reflect rigorously on (one's conscience, thoughts, feelings, etc.) in order to identify one's sins and failings (cf. sense 5a).The use of search in this phrase is not clearly distinguishable from figurative uses of search as a variant form of searce v., perhaps indicating overlap or confusion between the two, esp. during the 16th and 17th centuries.

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1563 A. Neville tr. Seneca Lamentable Trag. Œdipus sig. D.vi That thus you go about to serche, and sift with tooth and nayle, Obserue the golden meane.

1595 R. Greenham Most Sweete & Assured Comfort sig. Dx^v So that there is nothing harder than to sift and serch our owne hearts at the bottome, whether we respect our sins past or present.

1659 C. Gilbert Soveraign Antidote against Sinful Errors 21 Sift and search every thing by Scripture-Light, that ye may know the Truth.

1718 F. de La Pilonnière Third Defense 125 They have sifted and searched me to the very bottom of the Heart.

1881 J. Brown God's Bk. for Man's Life i. 2 The Bible is being searched and sifted severely in our time.

1992 MELUS 22 159 She began to search and sift documents from the libraries and oral recollections.

单词	to search and sift
释义	> as lemmas to search and sift P1. to search and sift (also to sift and search): to examine or investigate (something) in minute detail; (in early use) esp. to examine or reflect rigorously on (one's conscience, thoughts, feelings, etc.) in order to identify one's sins and failings (cf. sense 5a).The use of search in this phrase is not clearly distinguishable from figurative uses of search as a variant form of searce v., perhaps indicating overlap or confusion between the two, esp. during the 16th and 17th centuries. ΚΠ 1563 A. Neville tr. Seneca Lamentable Trag. Œdipus sig. D.vi That thus you go about to serche, and sift with tooth and nayle, Obserue the golden meane. 1595 R. Greenham Most Sweete & Assured Comfort sig. Dx^v So that there is nothing harder than to sift and serch our owne hearts at the bottome, whether we respect our sins past or present. 1659 C. Gilbert Soveraign Antidote against Sinful Errors 21 Sift and search every thing by Scripture-Light, that ye may know the Truth. 1718 F. de La Pilonnière Third Defense 125 They have sifted and searched me to the very bottom of the Heart. 1881 J. Brown God's Bk. for Man's Life i. 2 The Bible is being searched and sifted severely in our time. 1992 MELUS 22 159 She began to search and sift documents from the libraries and oral recollections. extracted from searchv. < as lemmas
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