Rescue workers are sifting through the wreckage in search of 18 missing people and have said that the death toll is likely to rise.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

We're started sifting through things and then we'll get rolling.

在我们开动之前,首先要筛选一下

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You are reading these things and this kind of dark mood sets over you and again, whether you are for or against the death penalty, that is not my point it is that sifting through enough of that sort of puts that mood on you,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21