swath
swath 英 [swɒθ] 美 [sweð]
n. 细长的列；收割的刈痕；收割的宽度
名词复数:swaths
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- n. 细长的列；收割的刈痕；收割的宽度
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1. That singer cut a swath on the stage in the small town.
那个歌手在这个小镇的舞台上出尽了风头。
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2. Satellite maps reveal the track of the recent Hurricane Earl as a wide swath of cool blue water from the Caribbean up the East Coast of the U.S.
卫星地图显示了最近一场飓风“厄尔”的运行路径：一条宽阔的蓝色带状水域，从加勒比海向北延伸到美国东海岸。
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3. Officials are considering whether to evacuate low-lying areas of Manhattan after hurricane Irene barrelled out of the Bahamas towards a wide swath of the eastern US.
在飓风艾琳离开巴拿马,迅速向美国东部广泛区域逼近时,美国官员正在考虑是否要使曼哈顿低洼区域的居民撤出。
- swath (n.) Old English swæð, swaðu "track, footstep, trace, scar, vestige," from Proto-Germanic *swathan, *swatho (source also of Old Frisian swethe "boundary made by a scythe," Middle Dutch swade, Dutch zwade, German Schwad "a row of cut grass"); of uncertain origin. Meaning "a mown crop lying on the ground" is from early 14c.; that of "space covered by the single cut of a scythe" emerged late 15c., and that of "a strip, lengthwise extent" is from c. 1600.
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