| 词汇 | swamp |
| 释义 | swamp noun[ C or U ] uk /swɒmp/ us /swɑːmp/ (an area of) very wet, soft land: 沼泽地;湿地 an alligator-infested swamp鳄鱼成群的沼泽地 The Everglades are an area of swamp in southern Florida.佛罗里达大沼泽地是佛罗里达州南部的一片沼泽地区。 See also swamplandspecialized zodebala/iStock/Getty Image Plus/GettyImages Geography: wetland bog boggy boreal forest constructed wetland fen marsh marshland marshy mire miry peat bog peatland quagmire quicksand reed bed slough swampland swampy water meadow wetland swamp verb uk /swɒmp/ us /swɑːmp/ swampverb (COVER)[ T ] to cover a place or thing with a large amount of water: 淹没，浸没 High tides have swamped the coast.高涨的潮水淹没了海岸。 be swamped byThe boat was swamped by an enormous wave.小船被巨浪吞没了。 Enclosing, surrounding and immersing beleaguer beleaguered beset border box someone/something in dunk enclosure fence something in fence something off flooding gather gift wrap gift-wrapped sheathe siege soak steep steep something/someone in something submersion swaddle swampverb (TOO MUCH/BIG)[ Toften passive ] If something swamps a person, system, or place, more of it arrives than can be easily dealt with: 充斥，席卷，使应接不暇 Foreign cars have swamped the UK market.外国车席卷了整个英国市场。 be swamped withI'm swamped with work at the moment.我这会儿忙得不可开交。 Don't let feelings of depression swamp you.不要被沮丧的情绪击垮。 [ T ]informal If clothes swamp you, they are much too big for you.（衣服）太大而不适合 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 catch dig 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 tall throw sand in the gearsidiom wrong-foot You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Style & appearance of clothes Big and quite big swamp | American Dictionaryswamp noun[ C/U ] us/swɑmp, swɔmp/ swampnoun[C/U] (WET LAND)an area of very wet, soft land: [ C ]Alligators live in these swamps. swampyadjectiveus/ˈswɑm·pi, ˈswɔm-/ a low-lying, swampy region swamp verb[ T ] us/swɑmp, swɔmp/ swampverb[T] (COVER WITH WATER)to cover a place or thing with a large amount of water: The boat was swamped by an enormous wave. swampverb[T] (BE TOO MUCH)to have too many of something, or to give someone too much to do: Foreign cars have swamped the market. We’ve been swamped with emergencies today. swamp | Business Englishswamp verb[ T ] uk /swɒmp/us to have too many of something, or give someone too much to do: Huge volumes of fake designer brands have swamped the EU market. be swamped with sthAfter the severe storms, insurance companies are expecting to be swamped with claims. be swamped by sthConsumers are feeling swamped by high levels of credit card debt. We've all been swamped with work since the policy changes. swamped with calls/emails/letters Examples of swampswamp In the rainy season in particular, potholes, floods, swamps and filth make it extremely difficult for cars and trucks to ply the roads. Overall though, the incentive offered by the redistribution had little impact in reducing care-home admissions and appeared to be swamped by longterm factors. Next day the ice had gone but heavy surf swamped the dinghy. Prisoners tried to drink the water in swamps along the railway line, dipping strips of cloth torn off shirts. Coastal mangrove swamps around the northern and southern shores of the harbour were almost completely cleared. With the development of larger swamps and lakes, some marked changes can be recognized in the megaflora. Once migration exceeds a critical level, migration swamps selection, and the two demes become genetically homogeneous and migration can no longer maintain genetic variation. Large remnant trees were used, but the iron smelters by then consistently ventured into the swamps to obtain supplementary fuel. When the specific input is strong it will have a powerful influence; when it is weak, it may be swamped by the other system dynamics. The road passes through numerous swamps, but there are no large rivers to be crossed. Flowers, almost half wild, swamped by atrocious rain. The text itself is short and inevitably somewhat swamped by the editorial apparatus. Change continues, but it is bounded change - until something erodes or swamps the mechanisms of reproduction that generate institutional continuity. At that point, in late 1942, there were pitifully few psychiatrists on active duty, and they were already swamped with patients. However, the picture changes in times of drought, when access to the swamps for food and water becomes necessary to support the elephants. See all examples of swamp 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. Collocations withswampswampThese are words often used in combination with swamp. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. coastal swamp Some beds illustrate a coastal swamp environment, some river delta, some shallow water. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. cypress swamp Additionally, from 1968 to 1988, 32% of the cypressswamp on the land bridge had either converted to marsh or became open water. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. freshwater swamp Although two non-nodulated legume tree species and some non-legume species were quite abundant in the freshwater swamp forest, none of them was found in all sample plots. 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. See all collocations with swamp |
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