deluge

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n. 大洪水, 泛滥 vt. 使泛滥

发音

UK /ˈdɛl.juː(d)ʒ/
US /ˈdɛl.ju(d)ʒ/
US /ˈdɛ.lu(d)ʒ/
US /ˈdi.lu(d)ʒ/
US /dəˈlu(d)ʒ/
其它 /dəˈlu(d)ʒ/

词形变化

deluges 复数 deluges deluged deluges 三单 delugeth deluging deluging 现在分词 deluged 过去式 deluged 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

洪水；泛滥；暴雨

动词

使泛滥；压倒

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A great flood or rain.

    大洪水

    洪水

    The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.

  2. 2.

    An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.

    The rock concert was a deluge of sound.

  3. 3.

    A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.

    政治

    deluge system, deluge gun, deluge set

    2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.

v.
  1. 1.

    To flood with water.

    及物

    Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.

  2. 2.

    To overwhelm.

    及物

    After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 9

flood torrent downpour inundation alluvion cloudburst pelter soaker waterspout

上位词 10

lot deal mess rain plenty sight mountain pot mass pile

下位词 2

debacle flash flood
动词

同义词 6

flood swamp overwhelm submerge inundate flood out

上位词 6

charge fill burden flood saddle fill up

相关短语

deluge gun deluge guns psychiatric deluge after us the deluge 我死之后，哪管洪水滔天 after me the deluge

词源

From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.

来源：wiktionary