overwhelm

英[ˌəʊvəˈwelm]美[ˌoʊvərˈwelm]

v.使不知所措，使难以承受，淹没，征服，压倒，击败，（感情或感觉）充溢；

第三人称单数：overwhelms;

过去式：overwhelmed;

过去分词：overwhelmed;

现在分词：overwhelming;

例句

Such rapid influxes of sediment probably overwhelm the bottom dwellers in an area.沉积物如此迅速的汇集可能把这一地区的海底生物全部淹没了.

Dull butcheries on a gigantic scale and mass effects overwhelm all detached sentiment.大规模的无情屠杀和群众意向压倒了一切公平意见.

No difficulty can overwhelm us.困难压不倒我们.

After my lecture, the students began to overwhelm me with questions.讲课之后, 学生们开始问一系列问题,使我不知所措.

It was clear that one massive Allied offensive would overwhelm the weakened enemy.毫无疑问，盟*一次大规模的进攻就会击溃已是强弩之末的敌*。

英语六级真题

Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

The overwhelming majority of employees attribute their stress mainly to low pay and an excessive workload.

Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is overwhelming to telling them not to communicate with or interact with their children.

A shattering loss of confidence inspires behavior that overwhelms the normal self-correcting mechanisms that usually prevent a recession from becoming deep and prolonged: a depression.

Its schools will be overwhelmed by the growing number of illegal immigrants.

Students are graduating with a variety of skills and interests, but often find themselves overwhelmed when it comes to choosing an ultimate career goal.

There is this 'detachment' and I realize that there are obviously experiences which would overwhelm everyone.

They are overwhelmed by their own prejudices.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

（情感、事件等）使不知所措，使难以承受

If you are overwhelmed by a feeling or event, it affects you very strongly, and you do not know how to deal with it.

例句

VERB

征服；制服；击败

If a group of people overwhelm a place or another group, they gain complete control or victory over them.

例句

英汉词典释义

vt.

覆盖, 淹没

压倒, 制服; 打败

使某人不知所措

（感情或感觉）充溢，难以禁受

压垮；使应接不暇

淹没；漫过

英英词典释义

Verb

1. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

2. charge someone with too many tasks

3. cover completely or make imperceptible;

4. overcome by superior force

行业词典

体育： 压倒对方；