She sifted the sand out from the rice.

她把大米中的砂子筛选掉。

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Stony ridges gave way to tumbled boulders, slopes of sifted gravel, and then sand, blown into shifting dunes.

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Spokesman Chris Davies said the sand would be sifted for tin and replaced.

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