| 词汇 | awash |
| 释义 | awash adjective[ after verb ] uk /əˈwɒʃ/ us /əˈwɑːʃ/ covered with a liquid, especially water: （尤指被水）淹没的，漫过的 By the time I discovered the problem, the floor was awash.等到我发现这个问题时，地板已经泡在水里了。 having an amount of something that is very large or larger than necessary or wanted: 充满的；充斥的；泛滥的 The city is awash with drugs and the police are powerless to do anything about it.该城市毒品泛滥，警方对此束手无策。 Synonyms repleteformal teeming Full alive alive with somethingidiom be a rich seam to mineidiom be riddled with somethingidiom be shot through with somethingidiom bristle burst congested crowded crowdedness flat chat fully booked heaped heaping rammed replete repletion ridden riddled teem awash | American Dictionaryawash adjective us/əˈwɑʃ, əˈwɔʃ/ covered with a liquid, usually water: They believe that the red planet was not only awash in water at one time, but also may have supported life. If someone or some place is awash in something that is not a liquid, there is a large amount of it: The reason why I say that is because the country is awash in money. Examples of awashawash Political theory in the last decade has been awash in discussions of cultural diversity and ethnic, racial, and religious pluralism. Then the press was suddenly awash with stories about the dramatic sudden decline in sparrow numbers, from traditional urban haunts to suburbia and the countryside. We are awash in restless evangelicals, profligate of stern and apocalyptic advice. Of course, the period of the dictatorship was awash with a -ood of words, endlessly replenished by journalists, pen-pushers, novelists and pamphleteers. Because biology has been spectacularly successful at the cell and molecular level, neurobiologists today are awash with reductionistic data. The homes of those politicians who were ' in business ' were often awash with information. But these very same ceremonies were also awash in a sea of vodka, the drinking of which also became a par t of national custom. We seem awash in psychiatric disorders. My fourth illustration will be that of one of our destroyers reporting that she had heavily rammed an enemy submarine which was awash. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are bewildered men; they are exhausted men, and they are desperately awash. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In boom times, the friendly bank manager is awash with cash and generosity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It could lead to our corporate finance system being awash with poor-quality bonds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he realise that the whole fishing industry is awash with rumours? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are an extremely rich country, awash with money that could meet the pensioners' demands. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard how it is awash with money in certain respects. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of awash These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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