Word · Frequency #9459
swamp
淹没；浸湿
To drench or submerge, or to become drenched or submerged.
- 1.
To drench or fill with water.
用水浸透或填满
- 2.
To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
压倒；使过于忙碌或超出能力
- 3.
To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
陷入困境和危险；压倒；毁坏；破坏
- 4.
drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
浸湿或淹没,或被浸湿或淹没
使不堪重负；压垮；毁坏；用水浸透或填满；压倒；使过于忙碌或超出能力；陷入困境和危险；压倒；毁坏；破坏；浸湿或淹没,或被浸湿或淹没
In use
Heavy rain swamped the small village, and people had to move to higher ground.
I'm swamped with deadlines this week, so I can't meet you for lunch.
The company's website was swamped by so many visitors that it stopped working.
The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor
Verb forms
base swamp · third person swamps · -ing swamping · past swamped · past participle swamped
Connections
Collocations
- be swamped with work
- 被工作压得喘不过气
- She was swamped with work before the deadline.截止日期前，她被工作压得喘不过气。
- swamp the market
- 充斥市场
- Cheap imports swamped the domestic market.廉价进口商品充斥了国内市场。
- swamp a boat
- 使船灌水沉没
- The heavy rain swamped their boat.大雨使他们的船灌水沉没了。
- be swamped by debt
- 被债务压垮
- Many families are swamped by debt.许多家庭被债务压垮。
- swamp the system
- 使系统不堪重负
- The huge number of users swamped the system.海量用户使系统不堪重负。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 swamp 想成‘湿地沼泽’：水漫上来淹没一切，事情多到把人压垮。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：flood and weather reports、work and busy schedules、crisis and overwhelming events swamp 作动词时，字面义（淹没、浸湿）多用于书面或正式语境，如洪水描写；引申义（使忙不过来、压垮）在日常口语和书面语中都很常见，如 be swamped with work。整体语气随搭配和语境变化，正式与非正式场合都可能出现。
Grammar Note
既可作及物动词，也可作不及物动词
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 swamp /swɑmp/ 真正押韵的词有 pomp /pɑmp/ 和 romp /rɑmp/（美式发音，元音同为 /ɑ/）。拼写以 -amp 结尾的词如 lamp /læmp/, camp /kæmp/, damp /dæmp/, stamp /stæmp/ 多数读 /æmp/，与 swamp 的 /ɑmp/ 不同，不要只看拼写。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 2，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。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.