engelska-polska översättning av sweep

zamiataćMusimy wspólnie pracować w przyjaźni, ale nie wolno nam zamiatać problemów pod dywan, ponieważ to nikomu nie pomaga. We must work together in friendship, but we must not sweep the problems under the carpet, because that does not help anyone.
zamieśćNie możemy zamieść tych problemów pod dywan! We cannot sweep these problems under the carpet! Zamiast tego chiński rząd najwyraźniej postanowił zamieść pod dywan kwestie dotyczące praw człowieka, aresztując działaczy i protestujących. Instead, the Chinese Government seems determined to sweep human rights abuses under the rug, by arresting activists and protestors. Zapewne nie będzie to ostatnia bariera na drodze do członkostwa w UE, lecz chcąc pozostać uczciwym, nie możemy po prostu zamieść tego pod turecki dywan. It may not be a final barrier to membership of the EU, but we cannot in all honestly just sweep it under an all too convenient Turkish carpet.

To clean by means of a stroke#Verb|stroking motion of a broom or brush
To move through a arc or similar long stroke
To search methodically
To play a sweep shot
To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom
To defeat in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series
To brush against or over; to rub lightly along
To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion
To strike with a long stroke
To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side
To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation
to vacuum a carpet or rug
A single action of sweeping
The person who steers a dragon boat possibly other types of boats? --
A chimney sweep
A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat
A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins
A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland
Violent and general destruction
A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding
The compass of any turning body or of any motion
Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line
A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them
The almond furnace
Any of the blades of a windmill
Any of several in the kyphosid subfamily
An expanse or a swath, a strip of land

to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney
The wind sweeps across the plain
The offended countess swept out of the ballroom
She swept the peelings off the table onto the floor
The wind sweeps the snow from the hills
The flooded river swept away the wooden dam
Their long descending train, / With rubies edgd and sapphires, swept the plain
to sweep the bottom of a river with a net
to sweep the heavens with a telescope
Give the front steps a quick sweep to get rid of those fallen leaves
Bradman attempted a sweep, but in fact top edged the ball to the wicket keeper
Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup
the sweep of an epidemic disease
the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye
I am primarily a sweep rower

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