Overwhelm
[əʊvə'welm] or [,ovɚ'wɛlm]
解释:
(verb.) charge someone with too many tasks.
(verb.) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli.
贝蒂整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly.
(v. t.) To project or impend over threateningly.
(v. t.) To cause to surround, to cover.
(n.) The act of overwhelming.
杰西卡校对
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Overflow, spread over and cover.[2]. Subdue, vanquish, conquer, defeat, overpower, OVERTHROW.
整理:塞丽娜
解释:
v.t. to overspread and crush by something heavy or strong: to flow over and bear down: to overcome.—p.adj. Overwhel′ming crushing with weight &c.: irresistible.—adv. Overwhel′mingly.
编辑:洛拉
例句:
- Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me, and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Ah, I might have trusted you to find your own way out--don't overwhelm me with the sense of my officiousness! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Yet she shuddered with a sense of nausea, a sort of seasickness that always threatened to overwhelm her mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I had expected him, naturally enough under the circumstances, to overwhelm me with questions. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The Count, at last issuing from his dreadnoughtthreatened to overwhelm her with it as with an avalanche. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Sometimes they overwhelm and submerge and discourage. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- In France--who, knowing me to have been a prisoner in the Bastille, would touch me, except to overwhelm me with embraces, or carry me in triumph. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- My sweet little lady overwhelmed me with dismay; her air of native elegance froze my very marrow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- We heard without sympathy the protestations with which he tried next to persuade us that the disclosure of the conspiracy had overwhelmed him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But they were overwhelmed at last, as was the whole British army by this time. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The job had overwhelmed him a little. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- He had actually arrived at twelve o'clock, and appeared to be overwhelmed by the unexpected tragedy. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- She was overwhelmed with a sense of a heavenful of riches. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Overwhelmed by the exquisite triumph of having got him back among us, I let him do what he liked with my hands. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- You have been in love, Mr Carriston, and you know how such a passion overwhelms the strongest man. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- With his mind apparently relieved from an overwhelming weight, by having at last got an order for something, the waiter imperceptibly melted away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- They were sustained by what seemed an overwhelming force of disciplined troops. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And then Prince took her arm in his and turned with great emotion and respect to his father, whose deportment at that moment was overwhelming. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I am overwhelming you with money--in my expansive intentions--if you only knew it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Plays and novels have indeed an overwhelming political importance, as the moderns have maintained. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- To him, the wonder of this transit was overwhelming. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake, it split, and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
编辑:卡蒂