inundated是什么意思？

inundated

英['ɪnəndeɪtɪd] 美['ɪnəndeɪtɪd]

• v. 淹没( inundate的过去式和过去分词 )，（洪水般地）涌来，充满，给予或交予（太多事物）使难以应付；

例句

• We were inundated with applications for the job. 这个职位的申请信如雪片飞来, 我们实在应付不过来。
• We have been inundated with offers of help. 主动援助多得使我们应接不暇。
• Her office was inundated with requests for tickets. 她所在的售票处收到铺天盖地的购票请求。
• We have been inundated with every bit of information imaginable. 凡是想得到的各种各样的信息潮水般地向我们涌来.
• His couture house was inundated with orders. 他的时装房子淹没的命令.
• Their neighborhood is being inundated by the rising waters of the Colorado River. 他们的街区正被科罗拉多河上涨的河水淹没。
• They have inundated me with fan letters. 他们转给我的粉丝来信让我应接不暇。
• Her office was inundated with requests for tickets... 她所在的售票处收到铺天盖地的购票请求。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  (信件、要求、请求等)使应接不暇,使不胜负荷
  If you say that you are inundated with things such as letters, demands, or requests, you are emphasizing that you receive so many of them that you cannot deal with them all.
  例句
  Her office was inundated with requests for tickets... 她所在的售票处收到铺天盖地的购票请求。 They have inundated me with fan letters. 他们转给我的粉丝来信让我应接不暇。
• VERB
  淹没;泛滥
  If an area of land is inundated, it becomes covered with water.
  例句
  Their neighborhood is being inundated by the rising waters of the Colorado River. 他们的街区正被科罗拉多河上涨的河水淹没。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something;
  "a desk flooded with applications""felt inundated with work""too much overcome to notice""a man engulfed by fear""swamped by work"
  2. covered with water;
  "the main deck was afloat (or awash)""the monsoon left the whole place awash""a flooded bathroom""inundated farmlands""an overflowing tub"