swamped 的定义
- filled or covered with water; flooded; inundated: The most important thing we learned is how to paddle a swamped canoe back in to shore.He saw lines of people walking along the swamped road, completely drenched.
- overwhelmed, especially with an excess of something:The website outage was most likely caused by swamped servers.Whether it's helping a swamped colleague with a project or buying a stranger a cup of coffee, any small act of kindness can boost happiness.
swamped 近义词
overwhelm, flood
更多swamped例句
- Back in the swamp, Todd comes face to face with Viola, a young girl who has crash-landed on New World in a small scouting craft, ahead of an incoming ship of new planetary settlers.
- Nitrogen and phosphorus from eating insects allows sundews to thrive in places where most plants can’t survive, like the acidic, nutrient-poor soil of swamps and bogs.
- David Thomas, my great-grandfather, was a runaway slave who fled from North Carolina through swamps and woods to find safety in the hills of Virginia.
- About 85% of palm-oil production occurs in Indonesia and Malaysia, and the conversion of peat swamps into palm-oil plantations produces as much greenhouse-gas pollution as nearly half of the global aviation industry.
- Some ancient Romans also thought that tiny creatures in swamps could make people sick.
- Organized money swamped organized people (in fairness not all outside money was right-wing).
- No one in Washington listened, and Sequoyah was swamped by the establishment of Oklahoma in 1907.
- The Daily Pic: In 1913, New Yorker Robert Winthrop Chandler was a successful radical, until he got swamped by Matisse and Duchamp.
- The couple were swamped with phone-waving well-wishers and extra police had to be called in at one stage as numbers swelled.
- But in the past decade the city of less than 60,000 inhabitants has been swamped with over 20 million visitors each year.
- The wave caused by the explosion swamped the submarine and it and its crew found a watery grave.
- The waves ran high and the boats were in great danger of being swamped.
- I thought we were swamped as I clung desperately to the tiller, though thrown violently against the boom.
- He might have been swamped by an uprising of the whole convention, but strange to say the convention was intent upon hearing him.
- Had our craft been a dug-out boat, as I originally intended it to be, we must inevitably have been swamped.