mopping

1. 拖把
   A mop is a piece of equipment for washing floors. It consists of a sponge or many pieces of string attached to a long handle.
2. VERB 用拖把擦(地板)
   If you mop a surface such as a floor, you clean it with a mop.
   1. There was a woman mopping the stairs.
      一个女人在拖楼梯。
3. VERB (用布)擦去，揩干(汗水)
   If you mop sweat from your forehead or mop your forehead, you wipe it with a piece of cloth.
   1. He mopped perspiration from his forehead...
      他擦去了前额的汗水。
   2. The Inspector took out a handkerchief and mopped his brow.
      检察员掏出手帕，擦了擦眉头。
4. N-COUNT 乱蓬蓬的头发;蓬乱不洁的头发
   If someone has a mop of hair, they have a lot of hair and it looks rather untidy.
   1. He was long-limbed and dark-eyed, with a mop of tight, dark curls.
      他四肢修长、眼睛乌黑发亮，留着一头蓬乱浓密的黑色卷发。

1. There was a woman mopping the stairs.
   一个女人在拖楼梯。
2. During a break he went to use the restroom and encountered a man mopping the floor.
   中途去洗手间时，他看见一位男士正在那里拖地板。
3. Finally I look up, only to see that one of the Albanian women who work at the Internet caf has paused from her nightshift mopping of the floor to lean against the wall and watch me.
   终于抬起头来的时候，我看见在网吧工作的一名阿尔巴尼亚妇女，停下手边的夜班拖地工作，靠在墙上看着我。
4. Are your people excited and inspired by a compelling vision* or are they simply mopping floors?
   你的员工是否因一个激动人心的愿景而兴奋？还是他们只是简单地在拖地板？
5. But a Big Society where the state stops simply mopping up after social failure needs a policy of early intervention at its heart – and this in turn can create an important new role for business and finance.
   但要建设大社会，让政府不再仅仅充社会失灵后收拾烂摊子的角色，我们需要将早期干预政策置于核心地位，这进而又会为商业与金融创造一个重要的新角色。
6. Residents in northwest Ohio are busy mopping up as floodwaters there continue to recede.
   俄亥俄州西北部的居民正忙着打扫卫生，洪水继续退去。
7. In addition to the high affinity antibodies we're talking about, our bodies also produce a lot of low affinity antibodies for mopping up infection.
   除了我们讨论的的高亲和力抗体外，我们的机体也产生许多抵抗感染的低亲和力抗体。
8. Is it, as the good-hearted liberal reformist suggests, that we have simply not got around to mopping up these pockets of human misery, but shall do so in the fullness of time?
   或者是否是像好心的自由主义改革者所建议的那样，我们不应该急着去处理这些人类的罪恶，而应该在长期中解决？
9. There are a few things that need mopping up before I can leave.
   我还有几件事儿，了结了才能走。
10. I love mopping up sauce with crusts of bread.
    我喜欢用面包皮沾吸调味汁。
11. Theoretically, the issuance of more local stock should damp that enthusiasm by mopping up investor demand.
    从理论上讲，在中国内地市场发行更多股票会吸收投资者需求，进而抑制这种狂热情绪。
12. Third taboo: When cleaning the room, sweeping first and mopping latter.
    三忌：打扫室内卫生，先扫后施。
13. Don't go in the kitchen, I've just finished mopping the floor.
    不要进厨房，我刚拖完地板。
14. Mopping the brow, for great exertion;
    擦去额上的汗，表示出大力；
15. A number of them took to mopping all day long.
    他们中有很多人总是愁眉苦脸。
16. You'll be mopping it for the rest of the week.
    这周的地板就归你拖了。
17. Mother started mopping up the oil.
    母亲开始把泼出的油揩干。
18. She went stealthily, mopping her flushed, stained cheeks, frightened, angry, very miserable.
    她悄悄走着，一面揩着火烫的、泪渍的脸，又怕，又气，非常难受。
19. It was such a hot day that he dept mopping his face with his handkerchief.
    天气这么热，他不住地用手帕擦脸上的汗珠。
20. A new mopping phosphating solution was developed, which was improved and innovated at the foundation of four unify phosphating solution.
    本研究是在“四合一”磷化液的基础上进行改进和创新，研制成功了一种新的擦拭磷化液。
21. The maid is mopping the floor.
    女佣正用拖把擦洗地板。
22. One morning I arrived early at work and went into the bank lobby where the Negro Porter was mopping.
    一天早上，我上班到得早，便走进银行的门廊，里面有一个黑人清洁工在拖地。
23. He simulated a mopping of his brow.
    他假装在擦额上的汗。
24. She is mopping the floor.
    她正在拖地板。
25. When you've flooded the economy with trillions of dollars, mopping up is no easy task.
    当经济已经被数万亿美元的货币洪流所淹没的时候，其后的处理工作将是不轻松的。
26. The model will spend the week sweeping and mopping up the garage.
    这位模特将会在这周打扫仓库。
27. I've spent all morning mopping the floots.
    我整个上午都在用拖把擦地板。
28. Mr Ma described their operations as "mopping up the battlefield".
    马英九将他们此次操作形容为“清扫战场”。
29. As dawn succeeded darkness, mopping up continued.
    黎明时候，搜索工作还在继续进行。

noun

1. cleaning with a mop
   1. he gave it a good mopping

   Synonym:    swabbing