| 词汇 | swamping |
| 释义 | swamping present 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 swampingswamping In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Moreover, these intellectuals expressed tremendous fear about the possible swamping of the individual by the mass, of the unique by the universal. For all our (practical) reasons are subject to the same swamping by an invisible hinterland of remote effects. On the adaptive value of reproductive synchrony as a predator swamping strategy. The difficulty was the sheer size and ubiquity of that class, which meant that any franchise to which they could realistically aspire risked swamping every other interest. Fast and frugal heuristics can reduce overfitting by ignoring the noise inherent in many cues and looking instead for the "swamping forces" reflected in the most important cues. The problem appears to be almost universally swamping people in coastal areas, which is shocking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Suddenly we hear about swamping and immigration and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Tobacco smuggling is, to borrow a phrase, swamping this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I heard his explanation for the use of the word "swamping". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These services have been literally swamping our own. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If you ask doctors and dentists in the health service these days how they feel, many will say that bureaucracy is swamping them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not talking about a swamping action but about a fairly small reduction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even if output were to be increased, there would be the danger of swamping front-line squadrons with too many inexperienced pilots. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Swamping consumers with information does not help them. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The question of swamping the electorate should be considered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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