inundate是英語中的及物動詞，英式發音為[ˈɪnʌndeɪt]，美式發音為[ˈɪnʌnˌdet, ˈɪnən-]，主要含義為"淹沒；泛濫；使充滿"。該詞源於拉丁詞根"und"（意為波動），與redundant（多餘的）、abound（充滿）等詞同源。其詞態變化包括第三人稱單數inundates、過去式/分詞inundated、現在分詞inundating及名詞形式inundation。
在具體用法中，inundate既可描述水域淹沒土地的自然現象（如"淹沒農田"），也可引申表示信件、請求等事物的過度湧入（如"被信件淹沒"）。根據柯林斯詞典，被動語態是其常見用法，如"被洪水淹沒的社區"或"被請求淹沒的辦公室"。牛津詞典將其英英釋義定義為"fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid"。
該詞的核心語境包含兩層：其一指物理層面的水浸現象，其二指抽象意義上超出處理能力的事務湧入。典型搭配包括"inundate with requests"（請求應接不暇）和"periodically inundated habitats"（周期性被淹沒的棲息地）。
基本介紹
- 外文名：inundate
- 詞性：及物動詞
- 英式發音：[ˈɪnʌndeɪt]
- 美式發音：[ˈɪnʌndeɪt]
單詞用法,短語搭配,雙語例句,
單詞用法
柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典
inundate /ˈɪnʌnˌdeɪt/ TEM8 ( inundating, inundated, inundates )
1.V-T If you say that you are inundated with things such as letters, demands, or requests, you are emphasizing that you receive so many of them that you cannot deal with them all. 被 (大量信件或請求等) 淹沒 [強調]
2.V-T If an area of land is inundated, it becomes covered with water. 淹沒 [usu passive]
短語搭配
inundate farmland 淹沒農田
inundate v 淹沒
inundate crops 淹沒農田
inundate drain 使布滿
founder inundate 浸水
inundate area 內澇區
inundate e crops 淹沒農田
雙語例句
- A Swiss government panel recommended that the country sell about half of its gold reserves and this raised fears of other countries that do the same and inundate the market. 瑞士政府的一個小組建議該國出售大約一半的黃金儲備，這引發了對其他國家採取同樣做法並淹沒市場的擔憂。
- To overrun with water; inundate. 地面被水淹沒。
- Deluge: To overrun with water; inundate. 淹沒：被水淹沒；使泛濫。
- If the dam breaks, it will inundate large parts of the town. 如果水壩坍塌，該城的大部分將被淹沒。
- I think the rain would inundate your answer, but it is so clear. 我多想雨中聽不清你的回答，它卻那么清楚啊！
- So please do not inundate the developer with E-mail's requesting support! 所以請不要隨便向開發者傳送請求支持的電子郵件
- I rigid seek in inundate on the road, that praise and immortal real love. 我執著地求索在漫路上，那傳頌和不朽的真愛。
- The earthquake took there a tsunami that could inundate low-lying lands as far away as Japan. 地震在這些地帶引發了一次海嘯，遠至日本的一些低地都被海水淹沒。
- A makeshift levee failed in Winfield, Missouri allowing the Mississippi River to inundate the town. 密蘇里州溫菲爾德地區的一處臨時防洪堤決堤，使得密西西比河河水淹沒了整個城鎮。
- The problem is that if the server goes down, clients will continue to inundate the network with requests. 但問題是，如果伺服器宕機了，那么客戶端將繼續使用請求塞滿網路。
- Police say rescue officials are worried that water from a choked river could inundate towns near the epicenter. 警方稱救援人員擔心堵塞的河流一旦決堤將會淹沒震中附近地區的鄉鎮。
- Even a one-meter rise in sea level would inundate half of Bangladesh's rice-growing land, forcing the relocation of 40 million people. 海平面如果上升一米，孟加拉國一半的糧食耕種土地將被淹沒，同時也會迫使4千萬居民避難
- The course changes frequently, and the area is so flat that a small change in the level of the river may inundate a considerable area. 河道變化多端，下游地區卻很平坦，水位少許上漲河流就會淹沒一大片土地。
- This helps minimize network traffic. The problem is that if the server goes down, clients will continue to inundate the network with requests. 問題在於，如果伺服器發生故障，客戶端會繼續通過請求泛濫網路。
- The Mississippi River crested at Vicksburg yesterday at a record high of 14.1 feet above flood stage, but did not breach the main levee or inundate the city. 昨天密西西比河洪水到達維克斯堡的水位超出警戒水位14.1英尺，但是並沒有損壞主堤，也沒有淹沒整個城市。
- The goal is both to let users know that new add-ons have been installed and let the add-on help the user move forward without needing to show popup dialogs or inundate the user. 設計的目標包括，讓用戶能夠知道附加組件已經被安裝，並且在安裝之後不應該使用彈出對話框或者某種方式來干擾用戶的正常使用。
- Oftware Description: About Superior Search 2005, The flood of data continues to inundate us, urgently needed information is often hard to find, and that costs time, nerves and money. uperiorSearch 2005洪水般是數據持續不斷地淹沒著我們，迫切需要的信息通常很難找到，同時浪費了時間，耐性和金錢。
- If this phenomenon, called "outgassing," were to kick in, it could inundate the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, perhaps doubling or tripling the effect of the past century of human industry. 如果這種被稱為“出氣”的現象開始發揮作用，它可能以二氧化碳淹沒大氣，也許比過去一個世紀人類工業的影響還要大一倍或兩倍。
- As the stores inundate us with CARDS, tokens, and advertisements, and we begin to dream of red hearts as we sleep, it's easy to feel a sense of obligation to join the romantic hysteria. 當商店充斥著情人節卡片，節日標號和廣告時，而我們做夢時也夢見那一顆顆紅心的時候，很容易不自覺感到浪漫的興奮。
