swathe

swathe1 /sweɪð $ swɑːð, swɒːð, sweɪð/ (also swath /swɒθ $ swɑːθ/) noun [countableC]

1 a long thin area of something, especially land 一长条〔尤指土地〕

swathe of

The bomb had left a swathe of the town centre in ruins.

爆炸在镇中心留下了一片长长的废墟。

A swathe of sunlight lay across the floor.

一道阳光照射在地板上。

2 TADLGa long thin area of grass or plants that has been cut down 〔割下草或植物后的〕一长条田地

We cut a swathe through the dense undergrowth.

我们在浓密的灌木丛中劈开一条道。

3. cut a swathe through something DESTROYto destroy a large amount or part of something 把某物夷为平地；严重损毁某物

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cut a swathe through something• They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.

Examples from the Corpus

swathe• This time the front door was open and a swathe of sunlight lay across the red-tiled floor.• Only the water itself, its wildly fluctuating level carving a swathe of devastation along the shore, betrays the deception.• He took out his knife and cut a swathe to the hollow.• They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.• It was like a smile, it was like a little Eden of thoughtful pleasure: a swathe of allotments.• a swathe of beige cloth• Great swathes of the world don't even have electricity or roads, let alone an information superhighway.• The fire had destroyed huge swathes of land.• She would start nearest to the door and work her way along the jostling, glistening, pouring swathes of colours.• This effectively excludes vast swathes of the planet's population.

cut a swathe through• They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.

swathe2 verb [transitiveT] literary

COVERto wrap or cover something in something 〔用某物〕包裹，覆盖

women swathed in expensive furs

身穿名贵皮草的女人

The moon was swathed in mist.

月亮笼罩在薄雾之中。

n Grammar

Swathe is usually passive.

Examples from the Corpus

swathe• As a cool breeze swathed his sweat-drenched body he realized they had taken his clothes.• She was swathed in a red silk dress that fitted where it touched.• He is swathed in chains, from which hang trophies - namely the heads of his victims, hanging by their hair.• They were the Mien, whose blue-turbaned women were swathed in dark robes accented with red wool ruffs.• Her attraction to him had hardly been swathed in subtlety.• No clouds swathed it, no breeze cooled him.• Brown and white bunting swathed the edges of the small stage.

Origin swathe1

Old English swæth “footstep, track”

swathe2

Old English swathian

swathe1 nounswathe2 verb →n GRAMMAR1

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