In the late Middle Ages, it was customary to scrape away the surface of the parchment with an abrasive, which completely wiped out any writing that was there.
在中世纪后期，人们习惯用磨料刮去羊皮纸的表面，把纸上的所有文字都擦得干干净净。
Whole villages were wiped out by the earthquake.
地震把整座整座的村庄夷为平地。
Last year's profits were virtually wiped out.
去年的利润几乎全都赔光了。
A few hardy species wiped out many of the Mediterranean invertebrates.
少数顽强的物种消灭了许多地中海无脊椎动物。
There were improvements in agriculture that wiped out malaria, but these were small gains.
农业的进步消灭了疟疾，但这些只是微小的进步。
Leamer says the recession permanently wiped out 2.5 million jobs.
利默说，经济衰退彻底摧毁了250万个工作岗位。
Most of the older organisms were nearly wiped out, although a few hardy species survived.
大多数古老的生物几乎都灭绝了，但也有一些生命力顽强的物种存活了下来。
As the distance between their breeding grounds and their food grows, entire colonies could be wiped out.
随着它们的繁殖地和觅食地之间的距离越来越远，整个群落都可能会灭绝。
Professor Johnson, last night when I was putting the finishing touches on my paper, a computer failure completely wiped out my files, do you think I can have another day to retype it?
约翰逊教授，昨天晚上我对我的论文做最后的润色时，电脑发生故障，我的文件全被清除了。你能不能再给我一天时间，把它重新打一遍？
Warmer sea temperatures caused by climate change and periodic El Nio events have caused large areas of coral to be wiped out in so-called "bleaching" events.
气候变化及周期性的厄尔尼诺现象引起的海水变暖，已经造成了大面积的珊瑚礁在所谓的“漂白”事件中消失殆尽。
All the bandits that invaded the border area have been wiped out.
窜犯边境的匪徒已全部被歼。
The tsunami that followed engulfed the northeast and wiped out entire towns.
随后的海啸淹没了日本东北，吞没了整个城镇。
It may be all but wiped out in Dublin.
或许在都柏林它已是心有余而力不足矣。
Not all of these debts would be affected by a sovereign default, let alone be wiped out.
并非所有这些债务都将受主权违约的影响，更不用说是被消灭。
Entire families could be wiped out just for belonging to the wrong class or for some alleged misdeed.
仅仅因为出身于错误的阶级或者被指控犯有某种罪行，整个家庭都会被消灭。
Sure, the stock and bond holders will get wiped out, but the infrastructure will still be there.
可以肯定的是，那些股票和债券的持有者将被抛弃，但是基础还在那里。
Weeks later it wiped out fields in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and England.
几周以后它彻底横扫了荷兰、德国、丹麦和英格兰的田野。
Loss of hedgerows and fragmentation of woodland habitat has nearly wiped out the Hazel Dormouse from Britain.
篱笆缺损，林地支离破碎，榛睡鼠差不多已从英国的土地上被扫地出门。
Shareholders were wiped out. Top managers were swept aside.
股东被扫地出门；高级经理被打入冷宫。
Of all the ways we might meet our untimely demise, getting wiped out by an asteroid is the most likely.
我们可能遭遇非命死亡的所有方式中，最有可能的是被小行星彻底消灭。
Oil sanctions imposed by the European Union and America have wiped out another important source of revenue.
由欧盟和美国强制实施的石油制裁已经摧毁了另一个重要的财政收入来源。
Existing shareholders would be wiped out.
现有股东将被逐出门外。
In Hanwang, there are collapsed factories and Bridges. In Beichuan, a whole town was wiped out.
在汉王乡，到处是倒塌的工厂和桥梁；在北川，一个小镇整个被夷为平地。
Thailand is the world's biggest rice exporter, but the floods have wiped out over a quarter of the country's crop.
泰国是世界上最大的大米出口国，但洪水已摧毁该国超过四分之一的农作物。
Dinosaurs were most likely wiped out by a giant meteor that cooled Earth's temperatures below their threshold for survival.
恐龙的灭绝很可能是由于一颗巨大的流星导致地球温度降到了它们生存的临界值以下。
The warm fire, along with the aromatic rice and hot water wiped out our fatigue and hunger completely.
温暖的火、喷香的米饭和滚热的洗脚水，把我们身上的疲劳、饥饿都撵走了。
The rescue of Bear Stearns wiped out the common shareholders.
对贝尔斯登公司的救助重创了普通股股东。
The animals had been almost completely wiped out a thousand years later.
在之后的一千年里，这些动物几乎完全消失了。
The animals had been almost completely wiped out a thousand years later.
在之后的一千年里，这些动物几乎完全消失了。
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