词汇 | inundated |
释义 | inundated past simple and past participle ofinundate inundate verb[ T ] uk /ˈɪn.ʌn.deɪt/ us /ˈɪn.ʌn.deɪt/ inundateverb[T] (TOO MUCH)to give someone so much work or so many things that they cannot deal with it all: 使应接不暇 We have been inundated with requests for help.求助申请多得让我们应接不暇。 Causing difficulties for oneself or others ask questions of someone/somethingidiom be a tall orderidiom be asking for troubleidiom be your own worst enemyidiom bother someone with something dig lay make heavy weather of somethingidiom make it difficult for someone to do something obduracy open a can of worms overburden sand shoot store up trouble/problemsidiom subject someone/something to something sucker punch swamp tall wrong-foot inundateverb[T] (FLOOD)formal to flood an area with water: (洪水)淹没 If the dam breaks it will inundate large parts of the town.如果水坝决口,这个城镇的大部分地区都将被淹没。 Floods, tides & currents atmospheric river current eddy flash flood flooded floodplain gyre high tide high water mark inundation longshore drift overwhelm tidal tidally tide table turbulence turbulent water waterline whelm You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Enclosing, surrounding and immersing Related wordinundation Examples of inundatedinundated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. If a scenario resulted in a substantial fraction of land in an island being inundated, land prices would rise. The platform could also be inundated by denial of service attacks. Similar geographical relationships emerge among the seasonally inundated forests, but with one exception. Not only was the public inundated with information, but manufacturers, dealers, artisans, builders, and architects had to be sold on the programme, as well. Every factual report, no matter how dressed up in rational language, or inundated with figures and charts, is also part of the performance of publicity. On hilly sites that are never inundated there are lowland dipterocarp forests. The values of the inundated land are predicted to appreciate over time. The total area of this catchment is 3,823 ha of which 272 ha is inundated. The area of land inundated increases with time, as the sea level increases. Busy practitioners are inundated with clinical guidelines (26). This ensured that the seeds were evenly moistened, but not inundated. The area becomes temporarily inundated after heavy rains, indicating that the bedrock impedes the vertical flow of rainwater into the ground. Chemists are being inundated with an unwieldy and difficult-to-categorize superabundance of particulars. The benefit of protecting the coastline is the value of the land that would have been inundated. All sites were inundated during the monsoon and dried out in winter, when vegetables were cultivated in areas potentially suitable for winter gardening. 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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