deluge
deluge 英 [ˈdelju:dʒ] 美 [ˈdɛljudʒ]
n. 洪水；暴雨 vt. 使泛滥；淹没
进行时:deluging 过去式:deluged 过去分词:deluged 第三人称单数:deluges 名词复数:deluges
- Feeling overwhelmed, like you're underwater? You might be experiencing a deluge — like when you've been given a deluge of homework over vacation: a dozen term papers, two dozen books to read, and a mile-high stack of math problems.
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- n. 洪水；暴雨
- vt. 使泛滥；淹没
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1. a deluge of calls, a deluge of complaints
接连不断的电话；没完没了的投诉；
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2. We have been deluged with applications for the job.
申请这个工作的求职信使我们应接不暇。
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3. The campsite was deluged by a flash flood.
露营地被突发的洪水淹没。
- deluge (n.) late 14c., from Old French deluge (12c.), earlier deluve, from Latin diluvium "flood, inundation," from diluere "wash away," from dis- "away" (see dis-) + -luere, combining form of lavere "to wash" (from PIE root *leue- "to wash").
- deluge (v.) 1590s; see deluge (n.). Related: Deluged; deluging.
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