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(zhēng)實(shí)際上結(jié)束了，不過一些小沖突和清理行動(dòng)還持續(xù)了一段時(shí)間。
mopping-up operations 掃尾行動(dòng) 返回 mopping-up