they knew that they had worked hard, and that their livelihoods were being swept away by forces beyond their control.

他们知道自己已经工作很努力了，他们也清楚自己的谋生手段正被无法掌控的力量卷走。

the town was swept away in the earthquake.

城镇在那次地震中被毁灭了。

the earthquake and tsunami that have caused over 10,000 deaths, swept away whole towns and plunged japan into a nuclear crisis will have an impact, albeit a much less dire one, on u.

发生在日本的地震和海啸，夺走了过万人的生命，席卷数个城镇，还使日本陷入核危机。

something tells me this trend won’t last and these voices will be swept away in the tabloid tide.

某些事告诉我这种趋势不会持续，这些声音将在小报潮中被扫除。

many of them, swept away with their families, are among the 235 000 people listed as missing or dead in indonesia since the tsunami struck.

他们中许多人同其家人一起被海浪卷走，成为印度尼西亚自海啸以来23.5万被列为失蹤或死亡人口的一部分。

those who insisted on worshiping at the altar of soporific right thinking—those who thought that conflict had become obsolete—were swept away in less than 20 years.

那些坚持在催眠般权利思想的祭坛边祈祷的人，那些认为沖突已经成为过去的人——在不到20年的时间里被一扫而光。

on balance it has swept away barriers to internal trade and the free movement of people. it has modernised poor regions.

总而言之，欧盟扫除了妨碍内部贸易和人员流动的屏障。

tsunami waves swept away houses and cars in northern japan and pushed ships aground.

在日本北部，海啸沖走了房子和汽车，船被推上岸搁浅了。

public broadcaster nhk reported that a large ship swept away by the tsunami rammed directly into a breakwater in kesennuma city in miyagi prefecture.

日本nhk电视台报道，一个被海啸席卷走大型船舶直接撞向在宫城县气仙沼市的防波堤。

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铁路公司报告说，三趟旅客列车没有人乘坐，因为旅客害怕周六晚上乘车有被海啸卷走的危险。

the solar wind from the sun was so powerful that it swept away most of the lighter elements, such as hydrogen and helium, from the innermost planets, leaving behind mostly small, rocky worlds.

来自太阳的太阳风以其强大的力量吹走了内行星上的氢和氦一类的轻元素，只留下了更小的石质星球。

as thomas de waal, an author on the caucasus, writes, “it was the first stone in an avalanche that swept away the entire multinational construction of the soviet union.

这是横扫苏联全部跨国建设雪崩的第一块石头。

your new boss has swept away the old code by breaking it himself.

而你的新老板亲自将过去的规范一扫而空。

but if he has bolstered the process, jonathan has also swept away an unwritten power-sharing agreement called zoning.

但是如果他支持此次进程，他也已经扫除了一个不成文的共享协议称之为分区。

residents along the riverside, for instance, have blamed the dam for devastating landslides that have swept away homes and farmland.

以水库沿岸的居民为例，他们认为大坝造成了毁灭性的滑坡，沖走了房屋和农田。

this brought a smile to fannie「s face and swept away the darkening thoughts of boys.

范妮的脸上露出微笑，有关男孩的灰暗想法也一扫而空。

eight months later, hurricane katrina swept away parts of louisiana along with much of the us」s scepticism for climate change.

八个月之后，卡特里娜飓风席卷路易斯安那州部分地区，同时引发美国对气候变化的怀疑。

japan「s coastguard said it was searching for 80 dock workers on a vessel swept away from a shipyard in miyagi.

日本海岸自卫队表示，他们正在试图搜寻一艘被海啸从宫城附近卷走的载有80名码头工人的轮船。

the resulting 30-foot-tall tsunami slammed into japan」s northern coast and swept away people cars, boats and buildings.

地震造成的30英尺高的海啸猛烈沖击日本北部海岸，将人、汽车、船只和建筑悉数卷走。