tide中等

A badly run “year of culture” washes in and out of a place like the tide, bringing prominence for a spell but leaving no lasting benefits to the community.

一个运作不善的“文化年”就像潮水一样在一个地方涨了又退，带来一时的瞩目，却不会给社区留下任何持久的益处。

Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration — one of the great folk wanderings of history — swept from Europe to America.

在17世纪和18世纪初的一百年间，一股移民潮——历史上伟大的民族迁徙之一——从欧洲席卷至美洲。