"The combination of the sweep and scope of Melville's language, the beauty of the story, the depth of the characters all pushed me into a whole new realm of composing and thinking of what music is onstage."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Bodies can be destroyed because you can take a sword, sweep sweep sweep, and chop it into pieces.

身体可以被毁掉,因为你可以拿把剑，刷刷刷几下，身体就会被看成碎片。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Broom meant to make a clean sweep of things, a clean sweep of what had come before.

扫帚》的寓意是将事情做个彻底的了结，对曾经发生过的事情一扫而空。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But,for the most part, he sees a lot of people being paid to sweep the streets.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Now let's change the pressure and temperature and sweep through a whole range of pressures and temperatures and measure the volume in every one of them.

然后改变气压和温度,并且让气压和温度,取便所有可能的数值,测量相应的体积。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Last week,while conducting his 17th immigration sweep, he brought out his "big gun," a machine gun.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

At the end of this sweep of the disease through your community, one in four, or one in five, of your neighbors would die from the disease.

当这场疾病风暴肆虐完毕之后,你的邻居中,有四分之一或者五分之一的人会死去

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It includes nearly 500 positions, including chimney sweep, firefighter,blacksmith,steel worker, diver and metro train operator.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

And Abraham's reaction comes as something of a surprise. He objects to the plan, and he starts to argue with God. "Will you sweep away the innocent along with the guilty? Shall not the judge of all the earth justly?" That's in Genesis 18:23-25. The question is of course rhetorical.

亚伯拉罕的反应时一种惊奇，他反对,这个计划，他开始与上帝争论，“无论善恶,你都要剿灭吗？审判全地的主岂能不行公义么？“，这在,《创世纪》第18章第23至25章，这个问题当然是夸张的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Holder said 303 people have been arrested, and law enforcement has seized money and drugs as part of a sweep that reached into 19 U.S.states.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells - Shattering and avalanching on the snow crust-- Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

阳光的温暖接着使那水晶的硬壳,从树枝上崩落，一齐倾泻在雪地上-,这么一大堆碎玻璃尽够你打扫,你还以为是天顶的华盖塌了下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Chambliss and other Republicans hope to tap the energy of the Tea Party movement to sweep them to victory over Democrats in the congressional midterm elections.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

It takes Frost a little sweep to get going.

弗罗斯特花了很长时间继续写下去。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And,so far,polls show that hardline right-winger Dervis Eroglu is set to sweep to victory.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

So, there's a continuum of electrical connection in the heart that allows an action potential to sweep across the surface of the heart and for the heart to beat in a coordinated fashion.

所以 心脏细胞有电偶联的连结组织,以使动作电位平稳在细胞表面传递,保证心脏的协调性跳动

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"Or whether it is really even a wave." Hawkings says Democrats say there is no upcoming Republican "wave" which will sweep scores of them from office, pointing to a special election for the U.S.House seat for the late Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

He invites us to hear the sweep of the scythe in those s sounds themselves, I think, and maybe even to hear the workers huff and puff, his rhythmic exhalation in the w's, which alternate and interact with those s's.

他让我们倾听镰刀扫过的声音,我觉得应该是这些s的发音上,也可能是听着劳动者的喘息声，他的有节奏的w似的发声，跟s音交替着互动。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"We need leaders who are committed to moving New Jersey forward, (Applause) and that is John Corzine, which is why you need to work hard on Tuesday!" A Republican sweep will be seen by some as a rejection of President Obama's policies and could embolden Republican efforts to win congressional seats in 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"I am sure she would have restated it, but if you look in the entire sweep of the essay that she wrote, what is clear is that she was simply saying that her life experiences will give her information about the struggles and hardships that people are going through, that will make her a good judge,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

If you look at it long enough, it is a word that opens and spreads out, makes a circle of a far horizon, a word on which rain can fall and dimple or sweep across in lashing gusts and leave unperturbed, a word that is calm enough to look at, almost lulling, but also hints at holding unreckonable power."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04