Overwhelm
[əʊvə'welm] or [,ovɚ'wɛlm]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) charge someone with too many tasks.
(verb.) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli.
贝蒂整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
杰西卡校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Overflow, spread over and cover.[2]. Subdue, vanquish, conquer, defeat, overpower, OVERTHROW.
整理:塞丽娜
解釋/意思:
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.
編輯:洛拉
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Ah, I might have trusted you to find your own way out--don't overwhelm me with the sense of my officiousness! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Yet she shuddered with a sense of nausea, a sort of seasickness that always threatened to overwhelm her mind. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I had expected him, naturally enough under the circumstances, to overwhelm me with questions. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The Count, at last issuing from his dreadnoughtthreatened to overwhelm her with it as with an avalanche. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Sometimes they overwhelm and submerge and discourage. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- My sweet little lady overwhelmed me with dismay; her air of native elegance froze my very marrow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- We heard without sympathy the protestations with which he tried next to persuade us that the disclosure of the conspiracy had overwhelmed him. 威爾基·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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The job had overwhelmed him a little. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He had actually arrived at twelve o'clock, and appeared to be overwhelmed by the unexpected tragedy. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- She was overwhelmed with a sense of a heavenful of riches. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Overwhelmed by the exquisite triumph of having got him back among us, I let him do what he liked with my hands. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- You have been in love, Mr Carriston, and you know how such a passion overwhelms the strongest man. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- With his mind apparently relieved from an overwhelming weight, by having at last got an order for something, the waiter imperceptibly melted away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- They were sustained by what seemed an overwhelming force of disciplined troops. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I am overwhelming you with money--in my expansive intentions--if you only knew it! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Plays and novels have indeed an overwhelming political importance, as the moderns have maintained. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- To him, the wonder of this transit was overwhelming. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
編輯:卡蒂