| 词组 | sweep aside |
| 释义 | sweep aside 1. sweep aside sth • sweep sth aside to refuse to consider something that someone says, and treat it as unimportant: ▪ Berry argued that buying an airline was over-ambitious, but Branson swept all objections aside. ▪ Britain swept aside French protests last night and ordered the restart of the GATT trade talks. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑brush aside, dismiss 2. sweep aside sb • sweep sb aside to defeat someone very easily: ▪ The Democrats held control of Congress until the Republicans swept them aside in 1994. ▪ Rosset, the Olympic tennis champion, swept aside Germany's Carl-Uwe Steeb 6-2, 6-2 to win the Kremlin Cup tournament yesterday. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑take apart informal 3. sweep aside sth • sweep sth aside to get rid of something very quickly in order to replace it with something else, especially in a way that destroys something valuable: ▪ Writing in 1934, George Orwell feared that modernisation would sweep aside Burmese culture. ▪ Whole forests have been swept aside to grow crops for western consumers. |
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