| 单词 | swept downstream |
| 释义 | swept downstream He managed to get the slack time of high tide wrong by one hour, resulting in him being swept downstream on the ebb tide. Times,Sunday Times From its perch, the forked-tongued menace spies a raft full of survivors being swept downstream in a raging river. Globe and Mail The piers of bridges were battered by debris and whole farmhouses which had been swept downstream. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Trees, loosened by the flood, crashed into the water to be swept downstream. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a flowing stream, this behavior leads them to hold position in a stream rather than being swept downstream by the current. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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