swathe的意思|swathe的解释-里氏词典

swathe [sweiθ]

vt. 绑, 裹, 包围

n. 带子, 绷带

swathe

[ noun ]

an enveloping bandage

<noun.artifact>

[ verb ]

wrap in swaddling clothes

<verb.contact>

swaddle

swaddled the infant

Swathe \Swathe\ (sw[=a][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swathed}
(sw[=a][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Swathing}.] [OE. swathen, AS.
swe[eth]ain. See {Swath}, n., and cf. {Swaddle}.]
To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.

Their children are never swathed or bound about with
any thing when they are first born. --Abp. Abbot.

Swathe \Swathe\, n.
A bandage; a band; a swath.

Wrapped me in above an hundred yards of swathe.
--Addison.

Milk and a swathe, at first, his whole demand. --Young.

The solemn glory of the afternoon, with its long
swathes of light between the far off rows of limes.
--G. Eliot.

The doctrine ought to be acceptable to a broad swathe of Americans, they claim, because it represents a return to the principles that guided the nation's founding fathers: personal freedom, limited government, free markets and the rule of law.
Not only does state ownership envelop a wide swathe of the productive economy, but publicly-quoted companies remain better protected against takeover than their Anglo-Saxon counterparts.
A swathe of low-income countries have no national networks worth the name, and provide telephones for fewer than one in 100 of their citizens.
UNDER the protection of Allied air cover, the 3.5m Kurds of northern Iraq have built a functioning system of parliamentary government over a large swathe of Iraqi territory.
A swathe of territory recognised by Moscow as Estonian in perpetuity by the 1920 Tartu Treaty remains outside the de facto border of the new Estonian state.
Analysts disclosed a swathe of moderate downgrades and reported cautiously on their meetings with the company management.
Insurers might similarly exclude a large swathe of risks in the small print.
But the government has yet to demonstrate that it has fundamental answers equal to the crisis. The most startling development has been the way in which the decision to shut the pits crystallised discontent across a broad swathe of the Conservative party.
It is a crisis compounded of political drift, a largely absent president and a swathe of problems untackled and festering: at root, however, it is economic. The credit squeeze of last year has worked.
A whole swathe of big British companies may decide that their dividends are out of line with their reasonable expectations for earnings. Conceivably, dividends overall could drop significantly in 1993.
A new arts and books editor is arriving fairly shortly, and will no doubt cut a swathe as soon as she gathers her wits.

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