[transitive] (HR 人力资源) to find out information about people who work or who want to work for you in order to make sure that they are suitable or that they can be trusted鉴别；选拔◆We screen all job candidates carefully.我们对所有应征者都会进行认真筛选。to check sth to see if it is safe or suitable to be used, seen, etc.筛选；核审◆We use an antivirus program to screen attachments.我们用反病毒程序检查附件。◆Products are screened for their toxic effects.对产品的毒性进行筛查。 SYN vet ●ˌscreen ˈout sb/sthif you screen out a person or a thing, you reject them/it（经筛选）去除◆Candidates are first interviewed informally over the telephone to screen out those that have no chance.对候选人首先要进行非正式电话访谈以便筛选掉那些没有可能性的人。◆The program screens out spam before it reaches your inbox.这个程序会把进入收件箱之前的垃圾邮件剔除。HELP A noun usually comes after out, but a pronoun comes between the verb and out.名词通常置于 out 之后，而代词则置于动词和 out 之间。