drown

• vt. 淹没；把…淹死
• vi. 淹死；溺死
• n. (Drown)人名；(英)德朗

来自drench, 湿透，词义进一步恶化，淹死。

1. cover completely or make imperceptible;

"I was drowned in work"

"The noise drowned out her speech"

2. get rid of as if by submerging;

"She drowned her trouble in alcohol"

3. die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating;

"The child drowned in the lake"

4. kill by submerging in water;

"He drowned the kittens"

drown

drown: [13] Drown is not found in texts until the end of the 13th century (when it began to replace the related drench in the sense ‘suffocate in water’) but an Old English verb *drūnian could well have existed. The earliest occurrences of the word are from the North of England and Scotland, which suggests a possible borrowing from, or influence of, Old Norse drukna ‘be drowned’; this came ultimately from Germanic *drungk-, a variant of the base which produced English drink.
=> drench, drink

drown (v.)

c. 1300, transitive and intransitive, perhaps from an unrecorded derivative word of Old English druncnian (Middle English druncnen) "be swallowed up by water" (originally of ships as well as living things), probably from the base of drincan "to drink."

Modern form is from northern England dialect, probably influenced by Old Norse drukna "be drowned." Related: Drowned; drowning.

without keeping the brain active while sleeping, they would probably drown.

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He had attempted to rescue the drowning man.

他曾试图去救那个溺水的男人。

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She tried to drown herself.

她试图投水自杀。

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He was drowned at sea.

他淹死在海里。

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They had drowned the unwanted kittens.

他们把没人要的小猫淹死了。

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The fruit was drowned in cream.

水果在奶油里泡过。

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She turned up the radio to drown out the noise from next door.

她开大了收音机的音量以压过隔壁房间的吵闹声。

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[不可数名词, 可数名词]death by drowning

溺水身亡

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Alcohol plays a part in an estimated 30% of drownings.

大约有30%的溺水是酒精的作用所致。

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Two children drowned after falling into the river.

两个孩子掉进河里淹死了。

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The conversation was drowned by the arrival of the taxi.

到来的出租车的声音压过了谈话的声音。

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Clapping drowned the speaker's words for a moment...

鼓掌声一度淹没了发言人的声音。

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Forty-eight people have drowned after their boat capsized during a storm...

他们的船在暴风雨中倾覆后有 48 人溺亡。

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A child can drown in only a few inches of water...

儿童在只有几英寸深的水中就可能溺亡。

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We were drowning in data but starved of information.

我们淹没在大量的数据中却找不到有用的信息。

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...people who gradually find themselves drowning in debt...

渐渐发现自己债台高筑的人们

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Look! The child just chuck his arms and legs about like that; he'll drown.

看! 那孩子竟然那样挥舞着四肢, 他要被淹死的.

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The loud cheers drown out his shouts.

欢呼声盖过了他的喊叫声.

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He went out early in the morning, planning to drown that dammed cat.

他一大早就出去了, 准备淹死那只该死的猫.

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Are you trying to drown someone, Ortega?

当Billbogan朝游泳池这边大踏步走过来时, 我还在咳嗽,并且水花四溅.

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But I knew I would not drown now.

不过我心里知道,现在我已不至于溺死了.

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It is no use trying to drown your sorrows in drink.

想借酒浇愁于事无补.

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She turned up the radio to drown ( out ) the noise of the traffic.

她放大收音机的音量以压过来往车辆的嘈杂声.

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But when you hold me near, you drown out the crowd ( the crowd ).

但是你近距离的拥抱淹没了吵杂的人群.

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Jennifer: You'll drown if you think that's a kickboard.

珍妮花: 如果你认为那是浮板的话,你会淹死的.

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Let blood drown the weak!

让血海淹没弱者巴!

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She attempted to drown herself in the river.

她企图投河自尽.

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