Word · Frequency #4100
flooding
淹没；泛滥
flooding is the present participle of flood.
To overflow or submerge, as with water from heavy rain.
- 1.
To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- 2.
To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- 3.
To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- 4.
To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
充满；涌入；使应接不暇；使充斥；大出血；大量出血；淹没；使泛滥
In use
The heavy rain flooded the streets.
Don't flood the engine by pressing the accelerator too much.
Applications flooded the office after the announcement.
flood sth (with sth)
用作及物动词，常与with连用表示用某物充满。
The heavy rain flooded the fields.
大雨淹没了田地。
flood + 介词短语
常与in, into, out, over等介词搭配表示方向。
Water flooded into the basement.
水涌进了地下室。
be flooded with sth
常用被动表示充满或泛滥，感情色彩中性或负面。
The market is flooded with cheap goods.
市场上充斥着廉价商品。
Connections
Collocations
- flood the market
- 充斥市场；使市场充斥
- The company flooded the market with cheap smartphones.这家公司让廉价智能手机充斥市场。
- be flooded with something
- 接到大量的……；被……淹没
- The office was flooded with calls after the announcement.公告发布后，办公室接到了大量的电话。
- flood in
- 大量涌入
- Donations flooded in from all over the country.来自全国各地的捐款大量涌入。
- flood back
- （记忆、感情等）涌上心头
- When I saw the old photo, memories flooded back.当我看到那张旧照片时，回忆涌上心头。
- flood out
- （洪水等）迫使……离开家园
- Many families were flooded out by the rising river.不断上涨的河水使许多家庭被迫离开家园。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 flood 里的 oo 看作两个浪头：大雨后浪头接连涌来，漫过堤岸，淹没一切。记住 oo 即‘洪水泛滥’的画面。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：weather forecasts、news reports、everyday speech flood 作动词表示“淹没”时，语气通常为中性，多用于天气预报、新闻报道和日常对话，既可用于正式书面语也可用于口语。
Grammar Note
及物时表示'淹没'，不及物时表示'泛滥'或'涌进'。常与介词with连用表示'充满'，如be flooded with water。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 flood /flʌd/ 完全押韵的词有 blood /blʌd/、mud /mʌd/、bud /bʌd/（注意 blood 与 flood 拼写相近且读音相同）。拼写以 -ood 结尾的词中，food /fuːd/、good /ɡʊd/、wood /wʊd/ 的读音各不相同，不要按拼写类推。其中 good 和 wood 读 /ʊ/，food 读 /uː/。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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