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单词音标:

【音标】 [,?uv?'hwelm]

汉语翻译

vt. 淹没, 受打击, 制服, 压倒, 使不知所措
【法】 打翻, 倾覆, 覆盖

词型变化:

动词过去式:overwhelmed 过去分词:overwhelmed 现在分词:overwhelming 第三人称单数:overwhelms 

英语解释:

动词 overwhelm:

  1. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
    同义词:overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
  2. charge someone with too many tasks
    同义词:deluge, flood out
  3. cover completely or make imperceptible
    同义词:submerge, drown
  4. overcome by superior force
    同义词:overpower, overmaster

例句:

  1. If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
    如果我不能以质量压倒,我就一定要以数量压倒。
  2. The village was overwhelmed when the floods came.
    这个村庄在洪水泛滥时被淹没了。
  3. Your kindness quite overwhelmed me.
    你的好意使我感激难言。

详细解释:


o.ver.whelm

v.tr.(及物动词)
o.ver.whelmed,o.ver.whelm.ing,o.ver.whelms
To surge over and submerge; engulf:
完全盖过:漫过并淹没;吞没,席卷:
例句:
waves overwhelming the rocky shoreline.
淹没了多岩石的海岸的海浪



To defeat completely and decisively:
制服:彻底并决定性地击败:
例句:
Our team overwhelmed the visitors by 40 points.
我们队以40分彻底击败了客队

To affect deeply in mind or emotion:
控制:对思想或情绪影响深刻:
例句:
Despair overwhelmed me.
绝望控制了我

To present with an excessive amount:
过份给予:过于大量地给予:
例句:
They overwhelmed us with expensive gifts.
他们给予我们大量的昂贵礼物

To turn over; upset:
使打翻,使倾倒;使倾翻:
例句:
The small craft was overwhelmed by the enormous waves.
小船被巨大的海浪打翻了