overwhelms

英 [ˌəʊvəˈwelmz]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈwelmz]

v.  (感情或感觉)充溢，难以禁受; 压倒; 击败; 征服; 压垮; 使应接不暇
overwhelm的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB （情感、事件等）使不知所措，使难以承受
  If youare overwhelmed bya feeling or event, it affects you very strongly, and you do not know how to deal with it.
  1. He was overwhelmed by a longing for times past...
     他一心渴望回到从前。
  2. The need to talk to someone, anyone, overwhelmed her.
     她迫不及待地要找个人说说话，随便是谁都行。
• VERB 征服；制服；击败
  If a group of peopleoverwhelma place or another group, they gain complete control or victory over them.
  1. It was clear that one massive Allied offensive would overwhelm the weakened enemy.
     毫无疑问，盟军一次大规模的进攻就会击溃已是强弩之末的敌军。

双语例句

• Unfortunately, the clear and present social pressure often overwhelms the long-term benefits of organizing the company properly.
  然而不幸的是，当前清晰可见的社会压力往往淹没了正确组织公司所带来的长期好处。
• As I gaze on your face, mystery overwhelms me; you who belong to all have become mine.
  当我凝视你的脸蛋儿的时候，神秘之感淹没了我；你这属于一切人的，竟成了我的。
• Their ectoplasmic humour often overwhelms their sense of reason.
  他们的理智经常受到灵外质的侵蚀。
• Stars are so much brighter than the planets which orbit them that their light overwhelms the small amount reflected from a planet's surface.
  恒星比以他们为轨道运行的行星亮得多。他们的光盖过了从行星表面上反射过来的少量光。
• The body also removes and repairs some damaged macromolecules, but often the sheer volume of free radicals overwhelms the repair system.
  该机构还删除和修理一些损坏的大分子，但往往是庞大的自由基压垮修复系统。
• This encompassing need that overwhelms me.
  这包括需要压倒我。
• As a consequence, terror overwhelms the person to the point of making irrational choices and non-typical behavior.
  结果，可怕的感觉占据了那个人，以至于他会做出无理性的选择和非正常的行为。
• The wind blows in gusts and all the foam overwhelms him.
  狂风在吼，无穷的浪花在向他猛扑。
• If it is to have any chance of competing as a global financial centre with other Asian cities, as India wants, it must act decisively before the tide of humanity overwhelms it.
  如果它希望像印度政府所希望的那样，有机会作为全球金融中心与其它亚洲城市竞争的话，就必须在被人潮淹没之前，果断地采取行动。
• They're considerably slower than a join on a relational database, but, as a result, it is much harder to create a query that overwhelms the data store.
  这要比关系数据库上的连接慢得多，因此很难创建一个让数据存储超负荷的查询。