clearing

UK:  ['klɪərɪŋ]

US:  ['klɪrɪŋ]

复数：clearings  

n.

1.清除,扫除,除去;清洁,纯化

2.〔商〕清算,(银行间的)汇划计算;〔林〕集材;〔军〕扫海

3.空地;开阔地

4.空旷的路

5.后卫将球击出守区

6.排水

7.表白,雪冤,昭雪

8.【商业】清算;(银行间的)汇划结算;票据交换;票据交换[汇划结算]额

9.【军事】扫海

10.【林业】集材;(森林中的)开辟地,开垦地

1 . I saw a small clearing of not more than three-fourths of an acre in the heart of this wilderness right in the mountaintop.
在山顶的荒野的中央，我发现了一晓小块不足四分之三英亩大小的开阔地。

2 . It was just a lifeless seed of a nymph2 that Chloris found one day in a clearing in the woods.
当初玫瑰只是林中一个仙女的尚无生命的一粒种子。一天，花神克罗斯偶然在森林的一块空地上发现了它。

3 . But if some other means of clearing cells rich in P16INK4A from the body could be found, it might have the desired effect.
但是一些清除体内富含P16INK4A基因细胞的方法却可以被发现，也能产生一种渴望已久的效果。

4 . Not so, he said, the excavators were clearing the way for emergency vehicles.
王勇平说，不是这样的，挖掘机是在为应急车辆清障。

5 . The rally is best explained by the ease with which speculators and industrial buyers can find funds to bid up the clearing price.
对于此轮上涨最好的解释是，投机者和行业买家很容易获得资金以推高结算价格。