overwhelm
英 [əʊvə'welm]
美[,ovɚ'wɛlm]
- vt. 淹没；压倒；受打击；覆盖；压垮
词态变化
第三人称单数: overwhelms;过去式: overwhelmed;过去分词: overwhelmed;现在分词: overwhelming;
助记提示
1. whelm sth over sth. => overwhelm.
2. 很多构成动词的over-xxx这种复合词，基本上可以认为或者很可能就是源于xxx over sth, xxx sth over sth这类xxx与over连用的短语或用法，而衍生、派生、导出的单一复合词，可以把这种现象看着语言的简化用法，或者基于此引申出新含义。
3. 由于whelm本身含义为：淹没，覆盖，压倒；这里的over表示：above；由此表示压倒、覆盖在什么什么之上，直接引出对象。因此，这里的over不要把它简单地理解为加强，一方面太笼统、模糊，另一方面也不准确、也不怎么合适，还不利于区分whelm和overwhelm的区别。
2. 很多构成动词的over-xxx这种复合词，基本上可以认为或者很可能就是源于xxx over sth, xxx sth over sth这类xxx与over连用的短语或用法，而衍生、派生、导出的单一复合词，可以把这种现象看着语言的简化用法，或者基于此引申出新含义。
3. 由于whelm本身含义为：淹没，覆盖，压倒；这里的over表示：above；由此表示压倒、覆盖在什么什么之上，直接引出对象。因此，这里的over不要把它简单地理解为加强，一方面太笼统、模糊，另一方面也不准确、也不怎么合适，还不利于区分whelm和overwhelm的区别。
中文词源
overwhelm 淹没，使应接不暇
over-,在上，超过，whelm,淹没。即使淹没，引申词义使应接不暇。
英英释意
- 1. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
- 2. charge someone with too many tasks
- 3. cover completely or make imperceptible;
- "I was drowned in work"
- "The noise drowned out her speech"
- 4. overcome by superior force
英文词源
- overwhelm (v.)
- early 14c., "to turn upside down, to overthrow," from over- + Middle English whelmen "to turn upside down" (see whelm). Meaning "to submerge completely" is mid-15c. Perhaps the connecting notion is a boat, etc., washed over, and overset, by a big wave. Figurative sense of "to bring to ruin" is attested from 1520s. Related: Overwhelmed; overwhelming; overwhelmingly.
考试真题
- The desire for a future reward is overwhelming.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- Economist Carl Weinberg believes the negative effects of plunging oil prices are overwhelming the positive effects of cheaper oil.
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- Any device that's built to receive a wireless signal at a specific frequency can be overwhelmed by a stronger signal coming in on the same frequency.
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- If anything, the information is overwhelming.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
- For some, the hardships of life without steady work eventually overwhelmed their attempts to keep their families together.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
- To avoid being overwhelmed by stress.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
- Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- The overwhelming majority of employees attribute their stress mainly to low pay and an excessive workload.
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- Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is overwhelming to telling them not to communicate with or interact with their children.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
- A shattering loss of confidence inspires behavior that overwhelms the normal self-correcting mechanisms that usually prevent a recession from becoming deep and prolonged: a depression.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
- Its schools will be overwhelmed by the growing number of illegal immigrants.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
- Students are graduating with a variety of skills and interests, but often find themselves overwhelmed when it comes to choosing an ultimate career goal.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
- There is this 'detachment' and I realize that there are obviously experiences which would overwhelm everyone.
出自-2010年12月听力原文
- They are overwhelmed by their own prejudices.
出自-2010年12月听力原文
实用场景例句
- She was overwhelmed by feelings of guilt.
- 她感到愧疚难当。
牛津词典
- The beauty of the landscape overwhelmed me.
- 秀丽的风光令我深深地陶醉。
牛津词典
- The army was overwhelmed by the rebels.
- 军队被叛乱者完全击败了。
牛津词典
- We were overwhelmed by requests for information.
- 问讯使我们应接不暇。
牛津词典
- He was overwhelmed by a longing for times past...
- 他一心渴望回到从前。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The need to talk to someone, anyone, overwhelmed her.
- 她迫不及待地要找个人说说话，随便是谁都行。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- It was clear that one massive Allied offensive would overwhelm the weakened enemy.
- 毫无疑问，盟军一次大规模的进攻就会击溃已是强弩之末的敌军。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- A deluge of electronic information may overwhelm American civil justice.
- 排山倒海的电子信息也许会压倒美国的司法公正.
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- You overwhelm me with your generosity.
- 你对我太宽厚了.
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- Can you feel your instincts overwhelm your reason?
- 本能的直觉,是否已淹没你的理性?
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- But in a democracy the votes of debtors tend to overwhelm the interests of creditors.
- 但是在一个民主政体中,对政府当局而言,债务人对大选影响的重要性压倒了保护放贷人利益的重要性.
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- No one will be able to overwhelm us.
- 谁也压不垮我们.
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- Trying to use more than four or five colors in one design would usually overwhelm.
- 但在一项设计中采用四种或五种以上的颜色通常都显得太过了.
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- But new technologies for distributing movies and television shows now threaten to overwhelm these national barriers.
- 不过,新的电影与电视节目传播技术出现以后,这些国家的保护屏障开始受到威胁.
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- If not considered, car use can overwhelm the community layout and squander planned CO 2 emission savings.
- 如果不考虑这些, 社区将难以承受过多的车辆,而且浪费计划节省的CO2排放量.
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- The signal from the largest tends to overwhelm the others.
- 最大体积的行星发出的讯号总是会覆盖其它行星的讯号.
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- Pacquiao might be too fast for Hatton and overwhelm him. That's not difficult to imagine.
- 对哈顿来说,帕奎奥或许太快太强势了, 这点不难想象.
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- Alternately, the immune system may be suppressed muchand infection may overwhelm the body.
- 增加用药量则又会抑制免疫系统,被感染击垮.
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- No difficulty can overwhelm us.
- 困难压不倒我们.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Their mission was to seize the bridges and overwhelm the garrison.
- 他们的任务是占领桥头,打垮驻军.
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- If glutathione is in short supply, these free radicals can overwhelm the cell.
- 若没有足够的谷胱甘肽时, 自由基将会充满细胞里.
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- That is, it can flourish, become a pest to human beings and overwhelm native species.
- 也就是说, 这个物种可能会泛滥成灾,影响人类生活,颠覆当地原产物种.
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- Such rapid influxes of sediment probably overwhelm the bottom dwellers in an area.
- 沉积物如此迅速的汇集可能把这一地区的海底生物全部淹没了.
辞典例句
- The raider, cornered at length, will overwhelm one weak vessel and escape.
- 袭击舰即便最后被它们团团围住, 它也会摧毁其中一艘较弱的巡洋舰, 突围而出.
辞典例句
- Don't attack your opponent until you can overwhelm him.
- 在你部队成型之前不要攻击你的对手.
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- Don't let the process overwhelm you or weigh you down.
- 不要让找工作将你压得喘不过气或打垮你.
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- Don't just win the match; overwhelm your opponents by about 20 goals to nil.
- 不只是要赢这场比赛, 而且要以大约20∶0的比分压倒对方.
《简明英汉词典》
- But the era, its ruins and its overwhelm us with facts.
- 但是这个满目疮痍 、 血淋淋的年代仅用事实就让我目不暇接.
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