Swept Away

基本解释

Some swept away after clinging to rooftops.
許多在屋頂避難的人被沖走。
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JR, the railway company, reportedthat three passenger trains had not been accounted for as of Saturday night,amid fears that they were swept away by the tsunami.
JR鉄路公司報告說，三趟旅客列車沒有人乘坐，因爲旅客害怕周六晚上乘車有被海歗卷走的危險。
He had become famous largely for chronicling a Europe that had been swept away, and had spent a charmed life without a regular job, fed—as he liked to put it—like Elijah, by the ravens.
他之所以如此出名，是因爲他爲已經一掃而空的歐洲做了編年史，沒有固定工作，但無災禍地度過了一生，曏他經常說的，像以利亞（希伯來先知，譯者注）一樣被烏鴉喂飽。

"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."
So, all of these financial obstructions that we had built up were suddenly being swept away.
所以我們所有的金融障礙,都忽然消失了。
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Dozens of houses on the outskirts of the Sicilian city were swept away or flattened by heavy rain and mud.

The civil-rights movement swept away many southern traditions, but none that anyone should mourn.
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