1·We arrived to find the staff cleaning up some breakages, and they asked us where we had been when the earthquake hit.
我们到达时发现工作人员正在清理一些破碎物品,他们问地震时我们在哪里。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The modern image is that dreams are the brain's way of cleaning up the computer's hard disk.
现代的看法是,梦是大脑清理电脑硬盘的一种方式。
3·One of the concrete ways people have been doing this is by cleaning up polluted habitat areas and then replanting native flowers that humming birds feed on.
人们一直以来采取的保护蜂鸟栖息地的具体措施之一是清理受到污染的栖息地,然后重栽蜂鸟赖以生存的花草。
4·If big sums are to be spent on cleaning up environmental disasters, it is better to spend them on unglamorous but pressing problems such as unsanitary water in Third World countries.
如果要把大笔资金花在清理环境灾难上,那么最好把钱花在那些乏味但紧迫的问题上,比如处理第三世界国家不卫生的水的问题上。
5·They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are.
他们这样是因为要付你的账单,清理你的房间,并听你告诉他们你是多么地理想主义。