swamp

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n. 沼泽, 进退两难的困境 vt. 淹没, 击溃, 清除, 使陷于沼泽 vi. 陷于沼泽, 淹没

发音

UK /ˈswɒmp/
US /ˈswɑmp/

词形变化

swamps 复数 swamps swamped swamping swamps 三单 swamping 现在分词 swamped 过去式 swamped 过去分词

别名

swomp

教材释义与例句

名词

沼泽；湿地

动词

使陷于沼泽；使沉没；使陷入困境

动词

下沉；陷入沼泽；陷入困境；不知所措（过去式swamped，过去分词swamped，现在分词swamping，第三人称单数swamps，名词swampiness，形容词swampy）

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)

    沼泽

    沼泽地

    Some small Marshes and Swamps there are, but more profitable than hurtfull.

  2. 2.

    A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.

    比喻
  3. 3.

    The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.

    美国 政治
v.
  1. 1.

    To drench or fill with water.

    The boat was swamped in the storm.

  2. 2.

    To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.

    比喻

    I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.

  3. 3.

    To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

    比喻
  4. 4.

    To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.

    I guess I've done it all. Drove teams, drove grabs (device used to fasten a trail of logs together), swamped (cleared the ground of underbrush and fallen trees for road construction).

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

swampland

上位词 2

situation wetland

下位词 1

slough
动词

同义词 4

flood deluge drench inundate

上位词 3

fill flood fill up

相关短语

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词源

Early attestations (starting in 1624) are from North America, but the term was probably in local use in Britain earlier. The etymology is not entirely certain; it is probably a fusion of Middle English swam (“swamp, muddy pool, bog, marsh”, also “fungus, mushroom”) — from Old English swamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), from Proto-West Germanic *swamm, from Proto-Germanic *swambaz, *swammaz — and Middle English sompe (“marsh, morass”), from either Middle Dutch somp, sump (“marsh, swamp”) or Middle Low German sump (“marsh, swamp”) (from Old Saxon *sump (“swamp, marsh”)), both from Proto-West Germanic *sump, from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. *Swambaz, *swammaz and *sumpaz are likely related to each other, but it is unclear whether they are of Indo-European origin or are substrate words or wanderworts. The word has alternatively been suggested to be a borrowing from Dutch zwamp (“swamp, marsh, fen”). Other cognates include Middle Low German swamp (“sponge, mushroom”), Dutch zomp (“swamp, lake, marshy place”), German Low German Sump (“swamp, bog, marsh”), German Sumpf (“swamp”), Swedish sump (“swamp”). Related also to Dutch zwam (“fungus, punk, tinder”), German Schwamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Swedish svamp (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Icelandic svampur, sveppur (“fungus”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌿𐌼𐍃𐌻 (swumsl, “a ditch”). Related to sump, swim.

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