Word · Frequency #18492
deluge
淹没
核心释义
to flood with water
- 1.
用水淹没
To flood with water.
- 2.
压倒
To overwhelm.
使难以承受；使不知所措；用水淹没；压倒；使泛滥
用法In use
Heavy rain deluged the streets, turning them into rivers.
用法提示：deluged 作及物动词过去式，表示“用水淹没”。
After the announcement, the company was deluged with questions from reporters.
用法提示：deluged 是被动语态的一部分，表示“被大量问题淹没/压倒”。
If you keep deluging the server with requests, it will crash.
用法提示：deluging 是及物动词现在分词，表示“用大量的事物淹没”。
deluge sth
作“淹没”解时，后面直接接被水淹没的地方。
Heavy rain deluged the low-lying fields.
暴雨淹没了低洼的田地。
deluge sb/sth with sth
表示用大量事物“淹没”某人或某机构，常带有使对方应接不暇的意味。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- be deluged with
- 被…淹没；被…压垮
- The office was deluged with applications.办公室收到了大量的申请。
- deluge someone with questions
- 用问题围攻某人；接连向某人提问
- Fans deluged the singer with questions after the concert.音乐会结束后，歌迷们接连向这位歌手提问。
- deluge someone with emails
- 给某人发送大量电子邮件；使某人收到大量邮件
- Customers deluged the support team with emails about the outage.顾客们就服务中断一事向支持团队发送了大量电子邮件。
- deluge the market with
- 用…充斥市场；向市场大量投放
- The retailer deluged the market with discounted goods.这家零售商向市场大量投放打折商品。
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
把 deluge 拆成 de + luge（雪橇）：雪橇从雪坡冲下，像洪水一样汹涌，把一切淹没、压倒。
语境与语域Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：formal writing、news reports deluge 作动词时表示“淹没”或“使…难以承受”，多用于正式或书面语，如新闻报道和文学作品。日常口语中表示“淹没、压倒”更常用 flood 或 overwhelm。
语法说明Grammar Note
常与介词with连用，常用于被动结构'be deluged with'表示被大量...淹没
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
No common word rhymes exactly with deluge /ˈdɛljuːdʒ/. The -uge lookalikes split into two sound groups: huge, refuge, subterfuge, and centrifuge end in /juːdʒ/, matching deluge's final syllable; luge and rouge end in /uːʒ/ and do not match.
用法优先级Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY, WORDNET.