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Trad. 掃
- to sweep (with a brush or broom)
- to sweep away; to wipe out; to get rid of
- to sweep (one's eyes etc) over; to scan
Trad. 掃地
- to sweep the floor
- (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom
- to be at an all-time low
Trad. 掃興
- to spoil things; to dampen spirits
- to feel deflated; to be dispirited
Trad. 掃地僧
- Sweeper Monk, nameless monk who maintains the library of Shaolin (from Jin Yong's novel "Demigods and Semidevils" 天龍八部|天龙八部[Tian1 long2 Ba1 Bu4])
- (fig.) person whose remarkable talents are not well known
Trad. 掃堂腿
- (martial arts) floor-sweeping kick (to trip one's opponent)
Trad. 顏面掃地
- lit. for one's face to reach rock bottom
- to be thoroughly discredited (idiom)
Trad. 逐行掃描
- line by line scanning
- progressive scanning
Trad. 一掃而光
- see 一掃而空|一扫而空[yi1 sao3 er2 kong1]
Trad. 一掃而空
- (idiom) to make a clean sweep of; to clean out
Trad. 掃除天下
- (idiom) to re-establish order throughout the empire
Trad. 名譽掃地
- to be thoroughly discredited
- to fall into disrepute
Trad. 掃黃打非
- to eradicate pornography and illegal publications
Trad. 威信掃地
- to lose every scrap of reputation
Trad. 斷層掃描
- CT scan (computed tomography scan)
Trad. 秋風掃落葉
- lit. as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves (idiom); to drive out the old and make a clean sweep
Trad. 電腦斷層掃描
- CAT scan
- CT scan