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词汇 overflow
释义 overflow
verb
uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈfləʊ/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈfloʊ/

overflowverb (TOO FULL)


C2[ I or T ]
When a liquid overflows, it flows over the edges of a container, etc. because there is too much of it: (液体)溢出,泛滥
The milk overflowed when I poured it into the jug.我往壶里倒牛奶的时候,牛奶溢了出来。
Because of heavy rain, the river may overflow its banks.因为下大雨,河水可能会泛滥,漫过河岸。
[ I or T ]
If a container or a place overflows, whatever is inside it starts coming out because it is too full: (容器或场所)装不下,挤得太满
Oh no, the sink is overflowing all over the floor.啊呀,糟了,水槽满了,水流得满地都是。
The bin was overflowing with rubbish.垃圾箱里的垃圾满得装不下了。
C2[ I ]
When a place overflows, or people or things overflow from somewhere, some people or things have to come out because it cannot contain them all: (场所、人或事物)挤满,满得容不下;爆满;人满为患
The bar was so full that people were overflowing into/onto the street.酒吧里人满为患,顾客一直排到了大街上。
His room is overflowing with books.他的房间里放满了书。
UKThe train was full to overflowing (= so full that there was not space for any more passengers).火车上人满为患。
 to overflowing
so that water or another substance is almost coming over the top: (满得)要溢了
Someone had filled the sink to overflowing.不知谁把水槽里放满了水,都要溢出来了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Movement of liquids
backsplash
be dripping with somethingidiom
brim
brim over
brim with something
drip
funnel
leakage
pour-over
reinject
reinjection
respray
ripple
run a bathphrase
spate
stem
swash
swill
swirl
swirling

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Too much and unnecessary

overflowverb (EMOTIONS)


C2[ I ]
If you overflow with thoughts or feelings, you express them strongly: (想法或感情)充满,洋溢;(激情)澎湃
They were overflowing with emotion at the birth of their baby.看到孩子出生,他们喜不自禁。
Suddenly, her anger overflowed.突然,她怒气冲天。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Expressing and showing feelings
abandon
affect
affective
be in/get into a stateidiom
beat your breast/chestidiom
crimson
feelingly
fling
fling up your handsidiom
flush
freak
freak (someone) out
game face
pale
roar
roar with something
sook
spill
spill out
sulk
overflow
noun
uk /ˈəʊ.və.fləʊ/ us /ˈoʊ.vɚ.floʊ/

overflownoun (AMOUNT)


[ S or U ]
an amount of liquid or number of people that cannot fit in a space: (液体的)溢出;容纳不下的人
I put a bucket underneath to catch the overflow from the water tank.我在底下放了一只桶来接水箱里溢出的水。
We can't cope with this overflow of patients from the other hospitals.我们无法安排从其他医院转过来的这么多病人。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Movement of liquids
backsplash
be dripping with somethingidiom
brim
brim over
brim with something
drip
funnel
leakage
pour-over
reinject
reinjection
respray
ripple
run a bathphrase
spate
stem
swash
swill
swirl
swirling

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Too much and unnecessary

overflownoun (PIPE)


[ C ](alsooverflow pipe)
a pipe that carries away water that is not needed溢水管
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Building: plumbing, pipes & sewage
ballcock
black water
catch basin
caulking
cesspit
gurgler
hot-water tank
hydrant
influent
isolator
leakage
plumb
plunger
sewage
sewage works
sewer
siphon
spigot
standpipe
waterworks

overflow | American Dictionary


overflow
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˌoʊ·vərˈfloʊ/
(of a liquid) to flow over the edges of a container because there is too much, or to contain more of something than can be held:
[ T ]Because of the heavy rains, the river overflowed its banks.
[ I ]The sink quickly overflowed, flooding the room.
[ I ]The train platform was overflowing with passengers.

Examples of overflow


overflow
In the first, when a task's stack overflows, it is extended by linking another stack.
The main aim of this article is to derive in closed form the distribution of the length of the period between two successive overflows.
The condition number, on the contrary, becomes infinity at singularities and hence, produces numerical overflows.
Even the moral has become suffused with the overflowing sense of bliss, joy, and love.
Even according to the police, the courts were overflowing, dangerous suspects were released for no reason, and errant precettati were not properly punished.
Otherwise, the book overflows with detail both scientific, artistic and cultural.
As he makes clear, this is only of benefit when the average number of records that has overflowed from a track is two or more.
There are two possible mechanisms to handle stack overflows.
A garbage collection is triggered when (half of) the nursery space overflows.
When the aging space overflows during a garbage collection of the nursery space, a collection of the aging space is scheduled.
Here, however, the figure he implicitly uses for himself is not the overflowing fountain but the parched hollow, the empty vessel.
In order to prevent extreme flooding, the swales will be connected and their overflows directed towards collecting ponds in open parts of the site.
The chemical toolbox is overflowing - more than a dozen new active ingredients have been registered in several families of chemistries.
Each of the three trays was filled to overflowing with the surrounding dried feed (weighing approximately 1.2 kg) and the contents emptied monthly.
The dramatic scene overflowed with ' ' sinister glower[s], ' ' ' ' sarcastic questions ' ' and ' ' long harangue[s].
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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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