| 词汇 | swamped |
| 释义 | swamped past simple and past participle ofswamp 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 drown 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 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Style & appearance of clothes Big and quite big Examples of swampedswamped In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Whatever the content of the text, it might be swamped on the night - and the number of performances was limited. The moderates as a group were aware that they could be swamped. Thus, as the political sphere is swamped by the economics of globalisation where will the alternative power bases come from? 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. The 'richly habited' baby is completely swamped by her noble surroundings. Sequence stratigraphy is a discipline swamped in terminology, making many wary. 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. Or is situational variation altogether swamped by dialect variation? Flowers, almost half wild, swamped by atrocious rain. The text itself is short and inevitably somewhat swamped by the editorial apparatus. At that point, in late 1942, there were pitifully few psychiatrists on active duty, and they were already swamped with patients. These graphs predominantly exhibit a logarithmic increase over an exponential increase due to the fact that the air is becoming 'swamped' with charged species. Their archives are swamped with unprocessed documentation and their institutes are jam-packed with crates full of finds. Both had thin white hair and both wore thick, black-framed glasses that swamped their aged, wrinkled faces. 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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