We often have little control over when we are swept by emotion.

当情绪席卷而来的时候，我们往往无法控制自己。

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In a land swept by typhoons and shaken by earthquakes, how have Japan's tallest and seemingly flimsiest old buildings—500 or so wooden pagodas—remained standing for centuries?

在这片被台风席卷、被地震撼动的土地上，日本最高、看似最脆弱的老建筑——约500座木制宝塔——是如何屹立了几个世纪的？

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Time--nobody knew how much of it--swept by unheeded and unnoted.

时间在不知不觉之中飞快地过去了——没有人知道过了多久。

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"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Dozens of houses on the outskirts of the Sicilian city were swept away or flattened by heavy rain and mud.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

Most of those killed in last week's earthquake died when a landslide triggered by the quake swept boulders as big as trucks across a dozen homes in the village of Cikangkareng.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

The Seawolves were swept by top-ranked North Carolina, losing the first two games 11-2 and 7-1.

WSJ: Stony Brook, Kent St. struggling to find CWS form

Shares of Mosaic, a maker of fertiliser, have been swept by one acquisition rumour after another.

ECONOMIST: No matter how bad things get, people still need to eat

The Mets were swept by Cincinnati in a three-game series at Citi Field.

WSJ: Braves-Mets suspended, game to resume Saturday