aswatheofwhatdoesitmean?Andit'ssupposedthatwehavemanyquantityphraseslikethisone,forexample:agreatdealof,alargenumbleof,astickof,loadsof,ahostof.Whocangivemeawebsitethatrecordsallofthesekindsofwords?Thewhole

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a swathe of
what does it mean?And it's supposed that we have many quantity phrases like this one,for example:a great deal of,a large numble of ,a stick of,loads of,a host of.Who can give me a website that records all of these kinds of words?
The whole sentence is," Torrential rains have been falling for weeks across a swathe of central and southern China."

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数周来,暴雨一直侵袭着中国中部和南部的一大片区域.
swathe：（用刈草机、 长柄大镰刀等）割下的一行草或其他植物: (fig 比喻) The storm cut a swathe through (ie destroyed large areas of) the forest. 暴风雨把大片大片的森林夷为平地.