英语释义

1. to become drowned
fell in the river and drowned chicken drowning in barbecue sauce drowning in paperwork

2. to suffocate by submersion especially in water

3. to submerge especially by a rise in the water level
villages drowned by the flooding river

4. to soak, drench, or cover with a liquid
drowns her French fries in ketchup

5. to engage (oneself) deeply and strenuously
drowned himself in work

6. to cause (a sound) not to be heard by making a loud noise —usually used with out
turned up the radio to drown out the noise

7. to drive out (something, such as a sensation or an idea)
drowned his sorrows in liquor

8. overwhelm
was drowned in homework

9. to die by being underwater too long and unable to breathe

10. to hold (a person or animal) underwater until death occurs

11. to cover (something) completely with a liquid

12. to die or cause to die from being underwater and unable to breathe

13. to cover with a liquid
She drowns her salad with dressing.

14. to overpower especially with noise

15. to make helpless or overwhelmed
drowning in work

16. to suffocate in water or some other liquid

17. to suffocate because of excess of body fluid that interferes with the passage of oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues (as in pulmonary edema)

18. to suffocate by submersion especially in water
drowned three kittens

片语

Drowning Pool溺水池（乐队名）

drowning ratio淹比

Drowning staff人员落水

Drowning boy落水的男孩

Drowning Video淹没音乐录影带

drown out淹没，压过

The DrowningThe Drowning is a post-apocalyptic first-person shooter video game developed by Scattered Entertainment released for iOS on April 11, 2013 for New Zealand App Store

drowning unconformity沉没不整合

英汉例句

• are patients swimming in a sea of health information? or are they drowning in it?

  病人是在浩如海洋的健康信息里畅游，还是快被淹死了？

• this change helps you debug problems with single sign-on without drowning yourself in unrelated log files.

  这一变更可以帮助您调试有关单点登录的问题，而无需淹没于无关的日志文件中。

• the typhoon sank a ferry, drowning over 200 people.

  那场台风使一条渡船沉没, 淹死200多人.

• they dived from the bridge and rescued the drowning woman.

  他们从桥上跳入水中,救起溺水的妇女.

• they were forcing her head under the icy waters, drowning her.

  他们用力把她的头按到冰冷的水中，想淹死她。

• as a parent it can sometimes feel as if you are drowning in conflicting information about your child「s requirements; what they should be eating, what they should be learning.

  作为一位父母，有时你会感到自己仿佛淹没在各种有关孩子需要的互相抵触的信息中；他们该吃什么，他们该学习什么。

• the swimmer dived into the river to save the drowning child.

  这位游泳者跳入河里去营救那个溺水的小孩.

• we were drowning in data but starved of information.

  我们淹没在大量的数据中却找不到有用的信息。

• his middle son died in a drowning accident five years back.

  他排行居中的那个儿子5年前意外溺水身亡。

• and it should be used for any victims of drowning or collapse from breathing problems.

  并且传统法也应被用于溺水或由于呼吸问题而昏倒的受害者。

• out of this million things, we have to pick and choose, otherwise we’ll forever be drowning in work and never get anything done.

  在这一百万件事情中，我们必须挑选，否则我们将永远淹没在工作中，永远不会完成任何事情。

• as the spin stopped, the oceans would all fall back toward the poles, drowning everything north of chicago and south of buenos aires and creating two massive circumpolar oceans.

  当地球完全停止转动时，海水将向两极倒灌，淹没整个芝加哥北部和布宜诺斯艾利斯南部，在极圈附近造成两处新的海洋。

• it」s like drowning out dissenting opinions in one's own head with a redundant belief.

  这就像在人的头脑中有一个不断重复的信念，淹没了其他反对意见。

• yes, indeed, but most of them are down to poor lifestyle choices that people can do something about, not, as implied, because they are drowning in a sea of carcinogens from which there is no escape.

  是的，确实是，但其中大部分都要归因于人们在生活方式上所能做出的选择非常有限，也就是说，他们淹死在无可逃避的致癌原之海里。

• library scientists have to prove their worth; most people don’t understand that they’re slowly drowning in a sea of their own information.

  「图书馆管理科学家」必须证明自己的价值；因为大多数人并不明白他们正在慢慢被自己的信息所淹没。

• apec seems be drowning in an ocean of jargon.

  亚太经合组织似乎为一大堆空洞的胡言乱语所淹没。

• many people died by drowning in the great floods.

  许多人在大洪水中淹死了.

• this number underestimates the true extent of the problem, as a significant proportion of deaths due to child maltreatment are incorrectly attributed to falls, burns, drowning and other causes.

  由于很大一部分虐待造成的儿童死亡被不恰当地归咎于跌落、烫伤、溺水和其他原因，这一数字低估了问题的严重程度。

• dolphins have sometimes been known to save drowning swimmers.

  据悉海豚有时会救溺水的游泳者。

• you make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning – and some of them many times over – what do you find?

  你犯更多的错误，然后当你将所有在不淹死的条件下能犯的错误都犯尽的时候（其中有些错误你还犯了很多次），你发现了什么？

相似词

deluge使泛滥；压倒

engulf吞没；吞食，狼吞虎咽

flood淹没，泛滥；大量涌入；大量送至；充满；使大受感动；照进；（发动机）使溢流；血崩

gulf吞没

inundate淹没；泛滥；浸水；（洪水般的）扑来

overflow泛滥；挤不下或多余的人（或物）；溢流管；数据过载

overwhelm淹没；压倒；受打击；覆盖；压垮

submerge淹没；潜入水中；湮没

submerse在水下的

swamp使不堪承受，使疲于应对，使应接不暇；淹，淹没；（船）被水吞没，沉没；使陷入困境

相反词

drain排水；流干；喝光；（感情）变淡；使精疲力竭；（非正式）将（球）轻击入穴