flood

英 [flʌd] 美 [flʌd]

• v. 淹没；充满
• n. 洪水

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C][U]洪水,水灾

   the covering with water of a place that is usually dry; a great overflow of water

2. [C][U]大量,大批

   a large quantity or flow

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. 淹没; 迫使离开

   inundate; leave because of a flood

2. vt. & vi. 大量涌来

   come in great quantities

3. vt. 充满

   cover or spread into completely

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 淹没，（使）泛滥，覆盖
2. 充满，挤满，拥满，注满，充斥
3. 溢出，喷出，涌出，满溢，从...溢出，溢流
4. 涌进，涌到，涌至，大量涌入，大量送至
5. 灌满水，用水浇灌
6. 蜂拥而出，蜂拥而至
7. 使大受感动
8. 照进
9. 洪水逼使某人背井离乡，发大水
10. 涨满（河床），使涨满水，涨潮，涨
11. 为水淹没，为水所淹
12. 压倒
13. 流泻

n. 名词

1. 大量，（一）大批，一大阵
2. 水灾，洪水
3. 涨潮，涨水
4. 泛滥，滔滔不绝，溢流，汹涌
5. 潮水最高点，满潮
6. 河，湖，海
7. 充溢，丰富
8. 泛光灯
9. 一大片水

英英释义

Noun:

1. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land;

   "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
   

2. an overwhelming number or amount;

   "a flood of requests"
   "a torrent of abuse"
   

3. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography

4. a large flow

5. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing

6. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide);

   "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"
   

Verb:

1. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid;

   "the basement was inundated after the storm"
   "The images flooded his mind"
   

2. cover with liquid, usually water;

   "The swollen river flooded the village"
   "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
   

3. supply with an excess of;

   "flood the market with tennis shoes"
   "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
   

4. become filled to overflowing;

   "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. The cellar floods whenever it rains heavily.
   一下大雨地窖里就灌满了水。
2. The river had burst its banks and flooded the valley.
   河水冲破堤岸,淹没了山谷。
3. The office was flooded with complaints.
   办事处收到如洪水般涌至的投诉信件。
4. Japanese cars have flooded the American market.
   日本汽车已充斥美国市场。
5. Applications flooded into the office.
   申请书像潮水般涌进办公室。
6. His admirers flood him with letters.
   他的崇拜者接连不断地给他写信。

用作名词 (n.)

1. Her child was washed away in the flood.
   她的孩子让洪水给冲走了。
2. The town was destroyed by the floods after the storm.
   暴风雨后的洪水冲毁了这座城镇。
3. The flood did a lot of damage to the crops.
   洪水毁坏了大量农作物。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. The reason for the flood was all that heavy rain.
   造成洪水的原因全是那场大雨。
2. They prevented the flood from breaking over the dam.
   他们堵住了洪水,没让它淹过堤坝。
3. The flood came about as a result of the heavy spring rains.
   过多的春雨造成了洪水泛滥。
4. The flood was the worst disaster the city had ever faced.
   这场水灾是这个城市以前从未经历过的灾难。
5. The money applied to the relief of the victims of the flood.
   这笔钱用于救济遭受水灾的灾民。
6. The government sent relief to the people who lost their homes in the flood.
   政府向水灾中流离失所的人送去了救济品。
7. The strike, couple with the flood, was expected to reduce supplies of food drastically.
   罢工加洪水,预计会大量减少食品供应。
8. The floods were a cataclysm from which the local people never recovered.
   经历了这场特大洪水,当地人民元气大伤,很难恢复。
9. The floods cut us off from our homes.
   洪水把我们挡住,回不了家。
10. The floods covered large areas on both banks of the river.
    洪水淹没了河两岸大片地区。
11. High flood waters put the town in danger.
    汹涌的河水使这个城市岌岌可危。
12. The flood water from the storm backed up the pipes for the dirty water.
    暴雨引起的洪水堵塞了下水道。
13. The advancing flood waters brushed houses and cars aside like matchsticks.
    滚滚向前的洪水像扫除火柴杆一样地把房屋和汽车都冲掉了。
14. There was a flood of complaints about the bad language after the show.
    演出结束后,对其语言之拙劣议论纷纷。
15. The flood of fan mail proved he'd arrived.
    崇拜者的信件潮水般地涌来,证明他成功了。
16. There followed a great flood of indignation in the newspapers.
    随后,报纸连篇累牍地刊载了表示义愤的文章。
17. She was in floods of tears.
    她泪如雨下。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. During spring rains the river floods.
   春雨期间河水泛滥。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. The river has flooded the meadow.
   河流淹没了草地。
2. Heavy rainfalls flooded the lowlands.
   大雨淹没了低地。
3. Every spring the river floods the valley.
   每年春天,河水都要淹没这个流域。
4. The soldiers broke the dikes and flooded the countryside to keep back the enemy.
   士兵们破坏堤坝淹没乡村以阻挡敌人。
5. The dam collapsed, flooding an area of five thousand square miles.
   水坝倒塌,洪水淹没了面积达5000平方英里的地区。
6. Letters flooded the office.
   办公室里到处是信件。
7. After the show, complaints flooded the television company's offices.
   节目播出后,电视公司的办公室收到大量投诉。
8. Warmth and happiness flooded her heart.
   她心里充满了温暖和幸福。
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9. We had a lot of rain that autumn. This region was flooded.
   那年秋天雨多洪大,这一带都淹了。

经典引文

• The young flood making close in shore.

  出自： R. Donnelly

• There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  出自：Julius Caesar , Shakespeare

• The domestic hot water machine has burst and flooded the kitchen quarters.

  出自： E. Waugh

• When rationing ends and beef begins flooding the market.

  出自： E. Paul

• The river overflowed its banks, flooding the lower reaches of the city.

  出自： B. Malamud

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

in flood

(河流)泛滥 overflowing

用作动词 (v.)

flood from (v.+prep.)

从…大量而来 come in great quantities
flood from sth
Wine flooded from the glass.

酒从杯中溢出。
Settlers flooded from Europe to America in the 19th century.19

世纪,殖民者从欧洲大量涌入美洲。

flood in (v.+adv.)

涌进 come in great quantities or numbers
flood in
Applications flooded in.

申请书像潮水般涌来。
Letters of congratulation flooded in.

大批祝贺信潮水般地涌来。

flood out (v.+adv.)

(洪水)迫使离开(家园); 淹没 compel to leave because of a flood; inundate
flood sth ⇔ out
The heavy rain has flooded out the ground floor of the hotel.

大雨把旅馆的底楼淹没了。
Thousands of people were flooded out.

成千上万的人被洪水赶出了家园。
Most of the people who were flooded out during the storm have now returned home.

大多数在暴雨期间因洪水被迫出逃的人现在已返回家园。

flood with (v.+prep.)

挤满; 充满 fill sth/sb with a lot of things
flood sth with sth
The cellar was flooded with water.

地窖被水淹了。
The fields were flooded with the heavy rain.

大雨使田里水涝成灾。 flood sb/sth with sth
They flooded him with advice.

他们给他一大堆忠告。
His admirers flood him with letters.

他的崇拜者接连不断地给他写信。
Market was flooded with foreign goods.

市场上充斥着洋货。
The room was at once flooded with light.

屋子里立刻充满阳光。
He lay there, flooded with pain, fear, and hatred.

他躺在那儿,心中充满了痛苦、恐惧和憎恨。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• battle against flood 与洪水搏斗
• cause a flood 引起洪水泛滥
• control a flood 防洪
• fight a flood 抗洪
• go through fire and flood 赴汤蹈火
• guard against a flood 防洪
• prevent a flood 防洪
• suffer a flood 遭受水灾

形容词+～

• great flood 大水灾
• terrible flood 可怕的洪水

名词+～

• mountain flood 山洪
• spring flood 春潮

～+名词

• flood level 洪水水位
• flood situation 水情

介词+～

• at the flood 水在涨
• in a flood 受洪灾,泛滥

～+介词

• flood in a century 百年一遇的洪水
• flood of people 人潮
• flood of rain 倾盆大雨
• flood of visitors 游客云涌
• flood of words 滔滔不绝的言辞
• flood of works 大量著作

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• flood the land 淹没陆地
• flood the meadow 淹没草地
• flood the valley 淹没山谷
• flood the village 淹没村庄

～+副词

• flood copiously 大量而来
• flood disastrously 灾难性地淹没
• flood fatally 不幸地离开
• flood furiously 难以控制地淹没
• flood impetuously 急躁地离开
• flood partially 部分地淹没
• flood in 涌入
• flood out 淹没

～+介词

• flood from the glass 从杯中溢出
• flood into the market 充斥市场

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. flood作“洪水,水灾”解时,多指河水高涨或泛滥,也可指山洪暴发,常可用复数形式表示单数意义。flood还可作“大量,大批”解,可用作不可数名词,也可用作可数名词。
2. flood在句中可充当主语、宾语,还可作定语。

v. (动词)

1. flood的基本意思是指河流等超越或冲破正常的范围,而使大量的水流涌到原本没有水覆盖的地面上,即“洪水泛滥”。本词并不指明泛滥的原因。
2. flood引申可指任何物〔事物〕“如洪水般涌来”。
3. flood主要用作不及物动词,主语通常为河流等。flood也可用作及物动词,宾语多为被淹没的地方或“涌至”之处。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的flod，意为洪水。

近反义词

【近义词】

• deluge
• inundation
• overflow
• deluge
• drown
• overflow

【反义词】

• ebbtide 落潮
• draught 通风
• drain 排出