| 词组 | inundate |
| 释义 | inundate When inundate is used with a preposition, with is usual: • Her face was inundated with an angry colour — James Joyce, Dubliners, 1914 • We were soon inundated with letters —William H. Whyte, Jr., The Organization Man, 1956 • ... I have never felt lonelier in my life, more inundated with frustration —John Mason Brown, Saturday Rev., 18 April 1953 Less often inundate is used with by: • CBS was inundated by calls, telegrams, and letters — Marya Mannes, The Reporter, 27 Apr. 1954 • The ballet public is inundated—truly it is—by Swan Lakes galore —Walter Terry, Saturday Rev., 20 Sept. 1975 Infrequently inundate has been used with in: • ... this gluts the market and inundates the viewer in a morass of mediocrity or worse —Amos Vogel, Evergreen, June 1967 |
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