swathes

To assert the right to retaliate against Hamas is not to say that it is just, or wise, to shell large swathes of Gaza.

主张有报复哈马斯的权利，并不是说轰炸加沙的大片地区就是正义的，或是明智的。

scary because it seems to reduce great swathes of our humanity, of our activities and our intellectual lives, to a mindless phenomenon.

教人害怕，因为它似乎将大部份人性（我们的活动、智识生活）都化约成一个「无心」的过程，不假思索。

And began to collect swathes of the gods and the top of the killed human soul and strength.

并开始收集散落的众神和战死的人类中的佼佼者的灵魂和力量。

Looking across the soft green swathes of Hyde Park, The Dorchester is one of the most desirable places in the world to stay.

看着窗外的海德公园的大片绿色的软，该多切斯特是世界上最理想的地方之一留下来。

Unleashed by an unauthorized technical experiment, it spewed radioactive dust over swathes of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and western Europe.

未经授权的技术实验如虎添翼，它喷出了乌克兰，白俄罗斯，俄罗斯和西欧大片放射性尘埃。

Despite the marketisation of large swathes of the economy, market measures either do not work or are not available to the authorities.

尽管中国经济的很大部分是市场经济，但市场手段或者不管用，或者无法被官方利用。

Now it is one of a host of countries eagerly laying claim to swathes of the seafloor that may one day yield huge riches.

现在在那些急着发表声明抓紧那些有朝一日可能带来财富的海底大陆的国家中，俄国就是其中之一。

Gambling is the heart of Macao, employing swathes of the workforce and supplying by far the bulk of government revenues.

博彩业是澳门的心脏，聘用了大量劳动力，迄今一直是澳门政府的重要收入来源。

In Portugal meanwhile fires continued to destroy vast swathes of the country's forests.

在葡萄牙，火灾烧毁了大量的森林。

Aging infrastructure and cable theft often leave swathes of Johannesburg in the dark.

老化的基础设施与电缆被偷盗使得约翰内斯堡的周边陷于黑暗。

As it is in vast swathes of China, the new was replacing the old, and it was not doing so slowly. It was doing so in the blink of an eye.

事实上，在中国大部分地区，新事物都在取代着旧事物，并且不是缓慢地，而就像发生在眨眼之间。

Its companies are "colonising" swathes of Africa and Latin America, cosying up to regimes Westerners shun.

中国公司正在非洲和拉丁美洲“开拓大片殖民地”，亲近西方人回避的政权。

Huge swathes of the wholesale industry's product offering (including some of its most profitable areas) have disappeared.

大批的批发业的产品供应（包括一些最赚钱的领域）已经不复存在。

Japan knows that swathes of its territory will be contaminated, perhaps uninhabitable, for the rest of the century.

日本知道它的大片国土将被污染，或许在本世纪剩下的时间里都无法居住。

Rebels held large swathes of territory after taking heavy losses estimated to be at least 1, 000 killed and many more injured.

在付出了估计至少1000人死亡更多人受伤的惨重代价后，暴乱者占领了大片领土。

Witnesses at the time said that wide swathes of the two villages had been completely leveled by the blasts.

据当时的目击者称，两个村子宽阔的地带完全被爆炸夷为平地。

Is exercise and a low-fat diet enough, or should large swathes of the population be prescribed preventative medication?

多运动加上低脂饮食就足够了吗？或者在人群中广泛普及预防医学的知识？

Perhaps the Great Recession has permanently diminished work opportunities for big swathes of the work force, in particular prime-age men.

也许是大萧条丧失了大量的工作机会，特别是对于那些壮年男性的工作机会。

In this method only narrow swathes of the product are applied, perpendicular to the direction of the marching hopper bands.

采用这种方法，仅需在垂直于蝗蝻带前进方向很窄的地带上施用该产品即可。

State governments have followed suit; Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have all closed large swathes as well.

州政府也纷纷效仿此做法；路易斯安那州，密西西比州和阿拉巴马州同样关闭了大面积的水域。