席卷而去 meaning in Chinese
make a clean sweep and go off [decamp]; abscond bag and baggage; be swept away (by); make off with everything that one can lay hands on; roll the mat with everything and run away; take everything away
Examples
- Hitler was also washed away by the storms of history
希特勒被历史的风暴席卷而去。 - Fearing lest a conflagration might set heaven itself on fire , he proceeded to drown the world . speedily the race of mean and their possessions , were swept away by the deluge
朱庇特唯恐用火烧会危及天宫本身，就决定用洪水淹没地球，转瞬间洪水就把地球上的人和他们的财物席卷而去。 - Fearing lest a conflagration might set heaven itself on fire , he proceeded to drown the world . speedily the race of mean and their possessions , were swept away by the deluge
朱庇特唯恐用火烧会危及天宫本身，就决定用洪水淹没地球，转瞬间洪水就把地球上的人和他们的财物席卷而去。 - One young woman who endured the flood described how she had helplessly watched the swollen river near her home sweep away her mother and two little children while she and her fifteen - year - old daughter survived by clinging onto tree branches
一位年轻女士告诉我们，她如何眼睁睁地看着母亲与两个小孩被洪水席卷而去，她与15岁的女儿则因紧抓着树枝而幸免于难。 - The hoarse messenger , uncomfortably seated on a form after taking that refection , had dropped into a doze , when a loud murmur and a rapid tide of people setting up the stairs that led to the court , carried him along with them
那沙喉咙的信使吃完便餐便在长凳上很不舒服地坐下，打起盹来。这时一阵高声的嗡嗡和一股疾走的人潮挤向法庭和楼梯，也把他席卷而去。