Merrill lynch , an investment bank , recently announced a plan to preserve a huge swathe of forest in the indonesian province of aceh .
美林商业银行最近宣布支持一项对印尼亚齐省大片森林的保护计划。
Bureaucratic blunders have cost the economy dearly , and japan needs a swathe of reforms to trade and competition without which the economy will continue to disappoint .
Kurdish activists now occupy most state institutions there , including police stations , and have set up road blocks in a swathe of territory along the frontier with turkey .
The army now holds a swathe of land some 30 kilometres wide .
部队现在据守一长条宽约为30公里的地带。
But they both look a lot like a certain swathe of their countries .
但她们都很像各自国家的特定特征。
They were scything the first swathe round the hedges .
他们正沿着树篱收割第一茬农作物。
Viewed from above , this vast swathe of land may not look like much fuzzy green vegetation , shadowy pockets of volcanic rock , incongruous veins of reddish brown soil but in a couple of years it will make history .
Last year , ash clouds from another icelandic volcano led to the closure of a huge swathe of airspace across europe and chaos at airports around the world .
去年,冰岛另外一座火山喷发形成的火山灰导致欧洲大范围空中交通关闭,引发全世界机场的混乱。
Next , the relative calm of the election campaigns underlined how very broad a swathe of the country wants to take politics from the streets and put it back in parliament .
其次,这次相对温和的选举活动也显示出全国的民众都希望让政治从街头重回议会的心声。
Barack obama 's law sought to expand medicaid , a health programme jointly funded by the federal government and the states , to a broader swathe of america 's poor .