swathe
美 [swe?ð] 
英 [sw?θ]
- v.裹；包；覆蓋
- n.（尤指割了莊稼的）一長條田地；一長片
- 網絡綁；包圍；帶子
詞形變化
復數：swathes 現在分詞：swathing 過去式：swathed 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | （尤指割了莊稼的）一長條田地a long strip of land, especially one on which the plants or crops have been cut |
| The combine had cut a swathe around the edge of the field. 聯合收割機把莊稼繞田邊割了一長條。 |
| Development has affected vast swathes of our countryside. 開發建設影響了鄉村廣大地區。 |
2. | 一長條；一長片a large strip or area of sth |
| The mountains rose above a swathe of thick cloud. 群峰聳立在云海之上。 |
1. | [usupass] ~ sb/sth (in sth) 包；裹；覆蓋to wrap or cover sb/sth in sth |
| He was lying on the hospital bed, swathed in bandages. 他裹著繃帶，躺在醫院的病床上。 |
習慣用語
cut a swathe through sth
把（某地的一大片）夷為平地；使…大部分遭受破壞to pass through a particular area destroying a large part of it
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
No doubt more good things can come out of the swathe of territory once occupied by a tribe known to the Romans as the Belgae.
毫無疑問這片曾被羅馬人稱作貝爾格部族占據的狹長國土還能產生更過的好東西。
Such a new approach could provide the private equity industry with a swathe of fresh capital from Asian countries.
這種新方式可能為私人股本行業提供一批來自亞洲國家的新資金。
A large swathe of industrial London is to be destroyed, a lot of it ugly: reclamation yards, bottom-end used car firms.
工業倫敦的一大片區域將被摧毀，其中不少相當丑陋：廢品回收場，最低檔的舊車銷售公司。
Off the main road, small patches of "natural" forest survive alongside the swathe of broad sandy corridor cut by a logging company.
大路旁邊，一塊塊“自然”林生長在伐木公司鋪就的又長又寬的林中走廊兩側。
That said, people have been buying far fewer houses since the government introduced a swathe of measures in April to try to cool the market.
盡管如此，自從4月份中國政府出臺一系列旨在冷卻房地產市場的措施之后，人們的購房數量仍然在大幅減少。
Another danger is that unconventional gas will push aside not just a swathe of coal-fired power stations, but promising renewables, too.
另一威脅則是，受到非常規天然氣排斥的不僅僅是一批燃煤發電站，還有充滿前景的再生能源。
FURTHER economic strife may be ahead as a swathe of recently released data points to a slowdown in the world economy.
隨著最近發布的一系列數據指出世界經濟將放緩，下一次的經濟危機可能就在前方。
One hopeful is Steve Stivers, running for a district that includes most of Columbus, the capital, and a big swathe of suburbia.
史蒂夫·斯泰弗斯有望競選到地區代表，這個地區包括哥倫布的大半——它的首都以及大片的郊區。
The swathe spans roughly one-fifth of the state, an area larger than Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut combined.
受影響區域約占該州五分之一的面積，比馬薩諸塞、新澤西和康涅狄格3個州加在一起都大。
The drops cut a wide swathe across the world, with exports plummeting in rich and poor countries alike.
出口下滑廣開前路，富裕國家同貧窮國家都出現類似下滑。
Each component works with the others to provide a swathe of approaches, as shown below, to achieve most user scenarios.
每個組件同其他組件一起提供很多方法（如下所示）來實現大多數用戶場景。
Merrill Lynch, an investment bank, recently announced a plan to preserve a huge swathe of forest in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
美林商業銀行最近宣布支持一項對印尼亞齊省大片森林的保護計劃。
That swathe of fire is centred on Texas, stretches north into Kansas, and sprawls from Arizona in the west to Georgia in the east (see map).
條形大火位于德克薩斯州，并向北方延伸直至堪薩斯州，并且從亞利桑那州西部擴張到喬治亞州的東部。
While Tata's IT business, TCS, was cutting a swathe through North America, Mr Tata was planning other international moves.
當塔塔集團的IT事業部TCS攻打北美市場時，塔塔先生正在計劃另一次國際行動。
A swathe of seagrass in the Mediterranean could be the oldest known living thing on Earth.
位于地中海的一個海草帶可能是地球上眾多已知生命體中最為長壽的一個。
Lionel Jospin, a Socialist prime minister, managed to privatise a swathe of French companies without once using the term.
一位社會黨總理昂內爾?若斯潘（LionelJospin）想方設法地讓一些法國企業私有化，根本不履行任職時的宣言。
On example he often recalled swathe time when an ugly thug thrust a revolver in his face.
他經常回想起的一個例子，是有一次一個丑陋的惡棍用一把左輪槍頂在了他的臉上。
There has been much less reform among Japan's huge swathe of inefficient, domestically oriented companies.
而在日本大量效率低下的內向型大公司中，實施改革的寥寥無幾。
Zweihanders are very heavily armoured foot troops who can cut a bloody swathe through nearly all infantry they will encounter.
這些劍士們為超重裝步兵，幾乎可將任何敵軍部隊砍殺得血肉橫飛。
I'm afrai we have no swathe available . Would you mind a twin instead?
我們恐怕沒有多余的套間了，你建議改定雙床間嗎？
But the buying spree does leave a large swathe of copper in the hands of one bank and its clients.
但搶購確實使大量銅落在一家銀行及其客戶手中。
The Kepler space telescope was designed to look at a fixed swathe of the night sky, staring intently at about 150, 000 stars.
開普勒太空望遠鏡是由美國國家航空航天局（NASA）設計的，用于觀測宇宙中的固定繞行軌道，密切監測著15萬顆恒星的光度。
This southern swathe of Guangdong province contains 45m people and had an estimated regional GDP of $269bn in 2006.
2006年，位于廣東省南部的珠江三角洲地區擁有4500萬人口，地區國內生產總值（GDP）估計為2690億美元。
How long this remains the case will depend on a broad swathe of unknowns, some of which may become clearer in the week ahead.
這情況會維持多久要看眾多的不確定因素而定，其中有部分因素未來一周可能會明朗化。
Fiat has cut a swathe through Chrysler since gaining day-to-day management control in mid-2009.
菲亞特2009年年中獲得克萊斯勒的日常管理控制權，由此拿到了進駐克萊斯勒的敲門磚。
the blankets that swathe his disabled limbs.
裹住他殘肢的毯子
Outside the city a swathe of farmland the size of Portugal has been destroyed.
在城市外圍的農田帶，如葡萄牙國土般大小的一片區域已因此遭到破壞。
The tornado's progress can be seen in a swathe of destruction nearly 10km long and 0. 5km wide.
通過這條接近10千米長0.5千米寬遭到破壞的范圍可以看到這次龍卷風的路徑。
The storm cut a swathe through the forest.
暴風雨把大片大片的森林夷為平地。
The farmer cut a swathe in the field with his scythe.
農夫用鐮刀在地里刈出一條路來。
Quiet, that is, until snowmobiles cut a swathe through the snow.
沒有雪地摩托開過時，那真是靜。
Bill tried to show off and cut a big swathe with Ann.
比爾想露一手，給安留下一個好印象。
One concept being mooted , for example, is that the FDIC should help troubled banks securities a swathe of assets .
例如，一個正在討論的觀點是，美國聯邦存款保險公司（FDIC）應該幫助陷入困境的銀行將一批資產證券化。
At least half a dozen fiscal stimulus packages and a swathe of interest rate cuts have barely registered with investors
至少半打的財政刺激方案和大刀闊斧地的息，都幾乎未能打動投資者。
The hurricane kept up for several days and left a swathe of destruction across the country
臺風持續了數天，給整個國家帶來一連串的毀壞。
junction pedestrian swathe vine speckle propose proposal allocate tireless effort fulfill
交叉處行人纏裹藤點綴提議提議；求婚分配孜孜不倦的努力圓滿
But they both look a lot like a certain swathe of their countries
但她們都很像各自國家的特定特征。
swaddle vt. envelop, swathe; restrain, restrict
把人包起，束縛
A swathe of daffodils across the lawn
草坪上長而寬的一片黃水仙。
Islamist fighters tied to al-Qaeda control a swathe of north-west Africa
與基地組織聯系密切的伊斯蘭戰士控制了西北非的大片土地
