swathe
美 [sweɪð] 
英 [swɒθ]
- v.裹；包；覆盖
- n.（尤指割了庄稼的）一长条田地；一长片
- 网络绑；包围；带子
词形变化
复数：swathes 现在分词：swathing 过去式：swathed 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | （尤指割了庄稼的）一长条田地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. 联合收割机把庄稼绕田边割了一长条。 |
| Development has affected vast swathes of our countryside. 开发建设影响了乡村广大地区。 |
2. | 一长条；一长片a large strip or area of sth |
| The mountains rose above a swathe of thick cloud. 群峰耸立在云海之上。 |
1. | [usupass] ~ sb/sth (in sth) 包；裹；覆盖to wrap or cover sb/sth in sth |
| He was lying on the hospital bed, swathed in bandages. 他裹着绷带，躺在医院的病床上。 |
习惯用语
cut a swathe through sth
把（某地的一大片）夷为平地；使…大部分遭受破坏to pass through a particular area destroying a large part of it
英汉解释
英英解释
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.
毫无疑问这片曾被罗马人称作贝尔格部族占据的狭长国土还能产生更过的好东西。
Such a new approach could provide the private equity industry with a swathe of fresh capital from Asian countries.
这种新方式可能为私人股本行业提供一批来自亚洲国家的新资金。
A large swathe of industrial London is to be destroyed, a lot of it ugly: reclamation yards, bottom-end used car firms.
工业伦敦的一大片区域将被摧毁，其中不少相当丑陋：废品回收场，最低档的旧车销售公司。
Off the main road, small patches of "natural" forest survive alongside the swathe of broad sandy corridor cut by a logging company.
大路旁边，一块块“自然”林生长在伐木公司铺就的又长又宽的林中走廊两侧。
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.
尽管如此，自从4月份中国政府出台一系列旨在冷却房地产市场的措施之后，人们的购房数量仍然在大幅减少。
Another danger is that unconventional gas will push aside not just a swathe of coal-fired power stations, but promising renewables, too.
另一威胁则是，受到非常规天然气排斥的不仅仅是一批燃煤发电站，还有充满前景的再生能源。
FURTHER economic strife may be ahead as a swathe of recently released data points to a slowdown in the world economy.
随着最近发布的一系列数据指出世界经济将放缓，下一次的经济危机可能就在前方。
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·斯泰弗斯有望竞选到地区代表，这个地区包括哥伦布的大半——它的首都以及大片的郊区。
The swathe spans roughly one-fifth of the state, an area larger than Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut combined.
受影响区域约占该州五分之一的面积，比马萨诸塞、新泽西和康涅狄格3个州加在一起都大。
The drops cut a wide swathe across the world, with exports plummeting in rich and poor countries alike.
出口下滑广开前路，富裕国家同贫穷国家都出现类似下滑。
Each component works with the others to provide a swathe of approaches, as shown below, to achieve most user scenarios.
每个组件同其他组件一起提供很多方法（如下所示）来实现大多数用户场景。
Merrill Lynch, an investment bank, recently announced a plan to preserve a huge swathe of forest in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
美林商业银行最近宣布支持一项对印尼亚齐省大片森林的保护计划。
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).
条形大火位于德克萨斯州，并向北方延伸直至堪萨斯州，并且从亚利桑那州西部扩张到乔治亚州的东部。
While Tata's IT business, TCS, was cutting a swathe through North America, Mr Tata was planning other international moves.
当塔塔集团的IT事业部TCS攻打北美市场时，塔塔先生正在计划另一次国际行动。
A swathe of seagrass in the Mediterranean could be the oldest known living thing on Earth.
位于地中海的一个海草带可能是地球上众多已知生命体中最为长寿的一个。
Lionel Jospin, a Socialist prime minister, managed to privatise a swathe of French companies without once using the term.
一位社会党总理昂内尔•若斯潘（LionelJospin）想方设法地让一些法国企业私有化，根本不履行任职时的宣言。
On example he often recalled swathe time when an ugly thug thrust a revolver in his face.
他经常回想起的一个例子，是有一次一个丑陋的恶棍用一把左轮枪顶在了他的脸上。
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内向型大公司中，实施改革的寥寥无几。
Zweihanders are very heavily armoured foot troops who can cut a bloody swathe through nearly all infantry they will encounter.
这些剑士们为超重装步兵，几乎可将任何敌军部队砍杀得血肉横飞。
I'm afrai we have no swathe available . Would you mind a twin instead?
我们恐怕没有多余的套间了，你建议改定双床间吗？
But the buying spree does leave a large swathe of copper in the hands of one bank and its clients.
但抢购确实使大量铜落在一家银行及其客户手中。
The Kepler space telescope was designed to look at a fixed swathe of the night sky, staring intently at about 150, 000 stars.
开普勒太空望远镜是由美国国家航空航天局（NASA）设计的，用于观测宇宙中的固定绕行轨道，密切监测着15万颗恒星的光度。
This southern swathe of Guangdong province contains 45m people and had an estimated regional GDP of $269bn in 2006.
2006年，位于广东省南部的珠江三角洲地区拥有4500万人口，地区国内生产总值（GDP）估计为2690亿美元。
How long this remains the case will depend on a broad swathe of unknowns, some of which may become clearer in the week ahead.
这情况会维持多久要看众多的不确定因素而定，其中有部分因素未来一周可能会明朗化。
Fiat has cut a swathe through Chrysler since gaining day-to-day management control in mid-2009.
菲亚特2009年年中获得克莱斯勒的日常管理控制权，由此拿到了进驻克莱斯勒的敲门砖。
the blankets that swathe his disabled limbs.
裹住他残肢的毯子
Outside the city a swathe of farmland the size of Portugal has been destroyed.
在城市外围的农田带，如葡萄牙国土般大小的一片区域已因此遭到破坏。
The tornado's progress can be seen in a swathe of destruction nearly 10km long and 0. 5km wide.
通过这条接近10千米长0.5千米宽遭到破坏的范围可以看到这次龙卷风的路径。
The storm cut a swathe through the forest.
暴风雨把大片大片的森林夷为平地。
The farmer cut a swathe in the field with his scythe.
农夫用镰刀在地里刈出一条路来。
Quiet, that is, until snowmobiles cut a swathe through the snow.
没有雪地摩托开过时，那真是静。
Bill tried to show off and cut a big swathe with Ann.
比尔想露一手，给安留下一个好印象。
One concept being mooted , for example, is that the FDIC should help troubled banks securities a swathe of assets .
例如，一个正在讨论的观点是，美国联邦存款保险公司（FDIC）应该帮助陷入困境的银行将一批资产证券化。
At least half a dozen fiscal stimulus packages and a swathe of interest rate cuts have barely registered with investors
至少半打的财政刺激方案和大刀阔斧地的息，都几乎未能打动投资者。
The hurricane kept up for several days and left a swathe of destruction across the country
台风持续了数天，给整个国家带来一连串的毁坏。
junction pedestrian swathe vine speckle propose proposal allocate tireless effort fulfill
交叉处行人缠裹藤点缀提议提议；求婚分配孜孜不倦的努力圆满
But they both look a lot like a certain swathe of their countries
但她们都很像各自国家的特定特征。
swaddle vt. envelop, swathe; restrain, restrict
把人包起，束缚
A swathe of daffodils across the lawn
草坪上长而宽的一片黄水仙。
Islamist fighters tied to al-Qaeda control a swathe of north-west Africa
与基地组织联系密切的伊斯兰战士控制了西北非的大片土地
