drowns是什么意思？

drowns

• v. （使）淹没， （使）溺死( drown的第三人称单数 )，浸透，浸泡，压过；

例句

• Huge surges cause severe flooding that demolishes buildings, washes out beaches and highways, and drowns people. 巨大的涌浪引起剧烈的泛滥,从而摧毁房屋, 冲坏海滩与公路, 使人们惨遭灭顶之灾.
• The day, with the noise of this little earth, drowns the silence of all worlds. 白日以这小小的地球的喧扰, 淹没了整个宇宙的沉默.
• With its quicksands the river usually drowns a few unwary visitors every season. 因有流沙，往往每季都会有几个游客不小心在这条河里溺水身亡。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• V-ERG
  （把…）淹死，溺死
  When someone drowns or is drowned, they die because they have gone or been pushed under water and cannot breathe.
  例句
  Forty-eight people have drowned after their boat capsized during a storm... 他们的船在暴风雨中倾覆后有 48 人溺亡。 A child can drown in only a few inches of water... 儿童在只有几英寸深的水中就可能溺亡。
• VERB
  淹没（于…中）；置身（于…中）
  If you say that a person or thing is drowning in something, you are emphasizing that they have a very large amount of it, or are completely covered in it.
  例句
  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。 ...people who gradually find themselves drowning in debt... 渐渐发现自己债台高筑的人们
• VERB
  盖过,淹没(声音)
  If something drowns a sound, it is so loud that you cannot hear that sound properly.
  例句
  Clapping drowned the speaker's words for a moment... 鼓掌声一度淹没了发言人的声音。 The conversation was drowned by the arrival of the taxi. 到来的出租车的声音压过了谈话的声音。
• PHRASE
  借酒浇愁
  If you say that someone is drowning their sorrows, you mean that they are drinking alcohol in order to forget something sad or upsetting that has happened to them.