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deluge

/del-yooj, -yoozh, del-ooj, -oozh, dih-looj, -loozh/US // ˈdɛl yudʒ, -yuʒ, ˈdɛl udʒ, -uʒ, dɪˈludʒ, -ˈluʒ //UK // (ˈdɛljuːdʒ) //

洪水,大洪水,洪灾,洪水泛滥

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a great flood of water; inundation; flood.
    • : a drenching rain; downpour.
    • : anything that overwhelms like a flood: a deluge of mail.
    • : the Deluge. flood.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    del·uged, del·ug·ing.

    • : to flood; inundate.
    • : to overrun; overwhelm: She was deluged with congratulatory letters.

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Examples

  • Official data of damages to hog inventory have yet to be released, but videos and photos of dead pigs and flooded pens suggest farms did not escape the deluge.

  • The deluge of requests effectively causes the site to shut down.

  • It also comes amid a deluge of misinformation on the various platforms, with politicians including the President trying to discredit mail-in voting.

  • Because the deluge of technical reports from human rights groups, the WhatsApp lawsuit, and increasing governmental scrutiny threaten NSO’s status quo.

  • Coronavirus has caused a data deluge, and not all of the information is as accurate, objective, or up-to-date as it seems.

  • Unfortunately, the deluge of details weighs the book down in parts.

  • Divorce ensued, along with a deluge of humiliating media coverage.

  • The deluge comes from the ceiling, where excess rainwater has worked its way into the subway car from outside.

  • As Barbara Walters might say—that is, if she were echoing French King Louis XV—“Apres moi, le deluge.”

  • Meanwhile, the deluge of rain continues, in fits and starts.

  • So the three Babcocks departed, and the silence which succeeded her deluge of words was soothing to her hosts beyond expression.

  • Crash went the collection of literature, and Welcome fell back on the floor of the stall, half-covered by a deluge of books.

  • There were only about four hundred years between the Deluge and the period at which we fix Abraham's journey into Egypt.

  • Then the Jew would have displayed his ten generations, down to the time of Noah, and the secret of the universal deluge.

  • And so they were caught fairly and squarely by the deluge that swept upon them with a bewildering suddenness.