mopping-up

劍橋詞典

the activity of dealing with a small number of people , problems , etc. that remain after most of them have been defeated or solved
清理；掃尾
The war was effectively over, although skirmishing and mopping-up went on for some time . 戰(zhàn)爭實際上結束了，不過一些小沖突和清理行動還持續(xù)了一段時間。
mopping-up operations 掃尾行動 返回 mopping-up