Windswept的意思|Windswept的解释-里氏词典

windswept ['windswept]

a. 风刮的, 被风吹扫的, 暴露在风中的

windswept

[ adj ]
open to or swept by wind
<adj.all>
windswept headlands

The church service concluded a two-day visit by the Anglican leader to a windswept, treeless plain outside Port Nolloth, about 400 miles north of Cape Town.
Sheep farming, the only agricultural activity the barren, windswept steppes can support, has become a ruinously loss-making business.
Awaiting them on top was a sloping granite summit with a stark, windswept landscape considered one of the most beautiful spots in the world.
The windswept peninsula, bounded by 1,600-foot cliffs and rough seas, is still home to about 90 Hansen's Disease patients.
Falklanders have mixed feelings about talks on restoring relations between Britain and Argentina, which made their rocky, windswept archipelago a battleground seven years ago.
Yes, Suzy admitted in today's column, she used a press release to write about the party in advance so she could slip away for "a little vacation on the beautiful, windswept isle of Mustique in the Caribbean.
The region affected by the Wednesday-Thursday quakes is a dry, windswept farming area, where wheat and other grains are grown and where most homes are built one-story high of unfired clay bricks, vulnerable to collapse in an strong quake.
'My garden means everything to me', confessed one lady in a windswept Shropshire garden which was not my taste at all but was thoroughly admirable in its own way.
Life is rugged in these treeless, windswept peatlands, and Sunday is the high point of a week otherwise spent fishing, tending sheep and weaving Harris tweed.
Maybe it's the bleak setting of windswept beaches, brooding moors and gray, weatherbeaten houses. Perhaps it's all the ships lost off the coast, carrying terrified souls into the stormy Atlantic.
Here is the president playing a homely game of horseshoes; there he is looking windswept and nautical; and here he is being sworn in to office.
But in San Francisco, it remained unclear whether voters would approve a $115 million downtown stadium to replace windswept Candlestick Park, which opened in 1960 and survived the Oct. 17 earthquake with minimal damage.
Walesa, 47, said it was too early to present his program but he took questions for 45 minutes from the crowd of 5,000 assembled in a cold, windswept market square of the northern-central city of Torun.
"They tried to grab him," Theo said, putting his hand around the younger man's neck. "He escaped." Behind him, people carried blankets, mattresses and chairs from the Zulu hostel across the windswept brown clearing to their shacks.
Ottorino Respighi owes his minor fame to some lush musical postcards that portray Rome's gurgling fountains and windswept pines.
Elders in Coroma, where about 10,000 Aymaras live in thick-walled adobe huts on Bolivia's windswept high plains, seek the return of weavings they describe as sacred.

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