swathes
The flood cut a wide swath in this area.
洪水席卷了这一地区，满目一片疮痍。
That singer cut a swath on the stage in the small town.
那个歌手在这个小镇的舞台上出尽了风头。
The tornado cut a swath through the town.
龙卷风袭击该镇,留下一长条破坏的痕迹。
Development has affected vast swathes of our countryside.
发展影响了乡村广大地区。
The party is rapidly disappearing in whole swathes of America.
共和党人数在整个美国都急剧下降。
We will cut a swath through their ranks.
我们会把他们的队伍切开一条口。
The storm cut a wide swath through the town.
暴风雨席卷全城, 造成很大的破坏。
The earthquake devastated a huge swath of Sichuan.
地震摧毁了四川的一大片带状区域。
Luna uses this gift to cut a swath through her enemies.
露娜使用这种力量斩开她的敌人。
This way China has rapidly acquired interests and influence across swathes of South-East Asia, Africa and Central Asia.
通过这种方式，中国已经从一系列东南亚、非洲和中亚国家身上得到好处并开始施展影响力。
AS HUMANITY grabs great swathes of land for its use, the wilderness favoured by other animals shrinks.
人类将大片土地据为己有，减少了其它动物所喜爱的野地。
Swathes of the country still lack broadband access, though it is hard to tell how far they extend.
国家的好些地带仍然触不到宽带，尽管很难说这些地带延伸有多远。
Illegal deforestation happens when ranchers and loggers conspire to clear swathes of land.
当农场主和伐木工人串谋清理一长片一长片土地时，非法砍伐就发生了。
Is exercise and a low-fat diet enough, or should large swathes of the population be prescribed preventative medication?
多运动加上低脂饮食就足够了吗？或者在人群中广泛普及预防医学的知识？
These heavy bolters provide a storm of fire, to cut swathes through enemy infantry and light vehicles.
这些重型爆矢枪喷吐的火网足以将任何敌人的步兵与轻装甲车辆撕成碎片。
To assert the right to retaliate against Hamas is not to say that it is just, or wise, to shell large swathes of Gaza.
主张有报复哈马斯的权利，并不是说轰炸加沙的大片地区就是正义的，或是明智的。
What applies with champagne applies across whole swathes of industries: the top end is suffering.
香槟酒的遭遇正在所有行业内上演：高端市场正受到影响。
By the 1990s swathes of Turkey's rugged Kurdish mountainside had fallen under guerrilla control.
到了20世纪90年代，土境内库尔德人居住的那片崎岖的狭长地带就落入了游击队手中。
Moreover, for “wasteland”, like swathes of Tawa's mountain slopes, auctions are common.
而且，对于“荒地”，正如塔洼山坡上的土地，拍卖很常见。
Many of the remaining homes sit in swathes of prairie created by untended empty lots.
大片空地由于无人照管杂草遍布，剩余的许多住宅就坐落在这些“草原”上。
Vast swathes of the economy continue to be directly owned and controlled by the state.
把中国变成殴洲逐个小国好发展?
Its companies are “colonising” swathes of Africa and Latin America, cosying up to regimes Westerners shun.
中国公司正在非洲和拉丁美洲“开拓大片殖民地”，亲近西方人回避的政权。
In Brazil, the Amazon Fund has been established to preserve vast swathes of forest as quickly as possible.
巴西建立了亚马逊基金会来尽早地保护大量森林带。
He effectively subverts this mood by injecting abstract swathes of bright colour into the compositions.
通过在这些要素中注入抽象形态的明亮色彩，他又有效地颠覆了这种沉闷的氛围。
The local currency is worthless, so swathes of public services have ceased to function.
津巴布韦本币贬得一文不值，原本已经微乎其微的公共服务也已经全部终止。
The gale was lifting huge swathes of spume and hurling them at the night blackness.
呼啸的海风掀起层层浪涛，抛向无尽的黑色夜空。
They have a preference for close-ranged firefights, using many melta and flamer weapons to smash armoured foes and bum whole swathes of lighter troops.
他们极其偏向于使用消化枪和喷火器在中近距离配备毁灭性的杀伤火力来消灭重装备的敌人击穿和轻步兵烧死。
And at your feet is a swath of ants bearing triangular bits of green leaf.
在脚下，则有一长列蚂蚁背负着三角形的绿叶碎片。
A swath of moonlight in the long garden was mottled over with dark shadows.
长条的天井里露出一段月光，中间再涂上一些黑影。
But across a swath of the US, it's turning out to be a white Easter.
但是从美国横带地区看，却呈现出一个白色复活节。
Agricultural machinery - Tedders and swath rakes with powered tools - Safety.
农用机械。动力摊草机和搂草机。安全。
Millions of people in Asia will see the longest total solar eclipse this century as swathes of India and China are plunged into darkness.
亚洲数百万人将会看到本世纪持续时间最长的一次日全食，届时印度和中国将会被笼罩在黑暗之中。
Swathes of public-sector workers are no longer getting paid enough even to buy a few loaves of bread a month;many are not getting paid at all.
公营企业很多员工的收入已经低到无法满足他们每个月只购买几条面包的需要，更多的人几乎失去了收入；
But the fires burning for three straight days obliterated vast swathes of the country and the death toll rose by 11 on Sunday to 60.
但是连烧了三天的大火摧毁了这个国家大面积的森林带，死亡人数周六增加11人，达到60人。
Swath after swath fell to his sickle, and sheaf after sheaf piled up.
一行接一行的庄稼倒在了他的镰刀下，一捆捆的庄稼堆了起来。
Huge swathes of the wholesale industry's product offering (including some of its most profitable areas) have disappeared.
原先大宗产业里大块大块的产品供给，包含某些最高度获利的领域，就此消失不见；
The Depression, in contrast, not only refashioned the structure of American finance but brought regulation to whole swathes of the economy.
相反，大萧条不仅改变了美国金融结构，而且导致经济整体管制。
Centre-left politicians fret over what the new stringency might do to areas such as Naples, where huge swathes of the economy are black.
去年，许多公司由于企业增值税的削减而得以喘息，但是许多个体（特别是那些单身汉和那些没有拥有房子的人）却是每况愈下。
Sunlight filters through a fog-shrouded swath of Acadia National Park, Maine.
意译：国家公园图片画廊。阳光过滤通过雾---覆盖的一片阿卡迪亚国家公园，缅因州。
A state of emergency was declared across much of the country following the 10-hour storm that left swathes of destruction in its wake.
经历十小时暴风袭击后,国内许多地方情况紧急,暴风过后满目疮痍。
China's economy has apparently bounced back from the horror of the fourth quarter of 2008, when broad swathes of industry stuttered to a sudden halt.
国经济显然已从去年第四季度的惨状中恢复过来。当时，许多行业的增长都戛然而止。
As it is in vast swathes of China, the new was replacing the old, and it was not doing so slowly.It was doing so in the blink of an eye.
事实上，在中国大部分地区，新事物都在取代着旧事物，并且不是缓慢地，而就像发生在眨眼之间。
This primary rainbow is the brightest color swath in the above image.
在上面这张影像中，最主要的彩虹颜色最亮。
We stepped out of the thick woods onto a giant swath of rubble, a big elongated pile of rocks on the top of this ridge.
（我们走出密林，来到巨大而细长的碎石带，这座山脊的顶端居然是连绵的岩石堆。
She's part of an interdenominational prayer circle that covers a great swath of western Washington.
她们的圈子很广，分布在整个华盛顿州的西部。
Equally formidable is Microsoft, cutting its impressive swath through the software world.
另一个巨人是微软，它是软件业的霸主。
This arrangement was marked by increasing instability, both in the parliament and, since 1996, in large swathes of the country that have been fought over by Maoist insurgents.
这种制度引起了议会和国家的动荡不安,1996年,由于毛党的叛乱,整个国家一片混乱状态。
The blast swath width determines the ice distribution onto the cleaning surface.
喷射幅区的宽度决定干冰在清洁表面上的分布。
But to make way for the thousands of glass and steel high-rises, vast swathes of old buildings have been swept aside - some of considerable historical interest.
但是，为了给数千幢玻璃外饰的钢结构超高层建筑让路，大片旧建筑被拆迁，而其中一些具有重要的历史价值。
Some of their firms are concerned about growing unrest in China as swathes of the country's rural population, particularly in the west, fall behind the thriving east.
他们的公司也担心中国将会不稳定。因为该国的农村人口，尤其是在西部，远远落后于繁荣的东部地区。