If neighbors are strangers to one another, they are less likely to sweep the sidewalk of an elderly couple living next door or keep an eye out for young trouble makers.

如果邻居彼此都是陌生人，他们就不太可能打扫住在隔壁的老年夫妇门前的人行道，也不太可能留意到一些捣乱的年轻人。

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Armed with their brooms and pinnies, the regulators clearly can help to tidy up the OTC market. There is no need to sweep it out of existence.

管理层手握拖把和抹布，完全可以将场外交易市场收拾干净，根本没有必要将它扫地出门了事。

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When it rains hard, landslides sweep topsoil down to the sea. This pushes fish farther out, beyond the range of the fishermen's modest boats.

如果下大雨，泥石流把表层土冲到海里去，而这些泥土又把鱼儿赶远了，渔夫们破旧的小船追不到鱼。

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It has instead represented the more recent impulse in our politics to sweep uncomfortable events out of the news, move forward in the Twitter news cycle, or grind it down into no more than partisan pettiness.

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This story unfolded in February 2006, with a furor like that of one of those summer thunderstorms that periodically sweep across the nation's capital, seeming to arise out of nowhere, building rapidly to a loud and frightening climax, and then moving out again, leaving Washingtonians to wonder what had hit them.

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Besides, who's going to cut the grass, or sweep the litter out of the parking lot, or empty the outside trash barrels?

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