Deluge
['deljuːdʒ] or ['dɛljʊdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; 'the basement was inundated after the storm'; 'The images flooded his mind'.
編輯:塔比瑟--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).
(n.) Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
(v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
(v. t.) To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.
赫克托整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Flood, overflow, inundation, cataclysm.
v. a. Submerge, inundate, overflow, drown, overwhelm.
克拉丽斯編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Inundation, rush, flood, redundance
ANT:Mist, moisture, dearth, drought, aridity, subsidence, exsiccation
贝丽尔整理
解釋/意思:
n. a great overflow of water: a flood: esp. that in the days of Noah.—v.t. to inundate: to overwhelm as with water.
安迪編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
艾伦校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The windows by no means escape the general deluge. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The world began again after a deluge and was reconstructed out of the fragments of itself. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The thunder was rolling into distance, and the rain was pouring down like a deluge, when the door of his room opened. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- What wasteful desolation have we not suffered from the deluge of a sudden shower! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall, May I but safely reach my home, My God, my Heaven, my All. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The deluge came--all hell broke loose upon the jungle. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Hence the deluge of half-observations, of verbal ideas, and unassimilated knowledge which afflicts the world. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Would not our little island be deluged by its approach? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She insisted that the Doctor should call twice a day; and deluged her patient with draughts every two hours. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- That she had a presentiment, that the tide of calamity which deluged our unhappy race had now turned. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The senseless spirit of conquest and thirst of spoil blinded them, while with insane fury they deluged the country in ruin. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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