英语词汇overwhelm的意思、翻译、用法及例句-英语用法大全

词组	overwhelm
释义	overwhelm When overwhelm is used in the passive voice or as an adjectival past participle, it is most often followed with by; with is also found sometimes: • ... we have not been overwhelmed by the air attack —Sir Winston Churchill, The Unrelenting Struggle, 1942 • ... an irrational, heroic, mystic world, beset by treachery, overwhelmed by violence —William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1960 • ... Oxford's dreaming spires overwhelmed by factories —John Fischer, Harper's, July 1972 • ... a village whose final fate was to be overwhelmed with drifting sand —Jacquetta & Christopher Hawkes, Prehistoric Britain, 1949 When some other form of overwhelm is used, by and with are also used. Occasionally, in is also found: • Your letter overwhelms me a little by its affectionate generosity —Harold J. Laski, letter, 2 Apr. 1920 • The danger of historical parallels is their power to overwhelm the judgment with the pat and triumphant testimony of coincidence —Archibald Mac-Leish, Saturday Rev., 9 Feb. 1946 • ... overwhelming the viewer with a mass of detail —Current Biography, September 1967 • ... a blast furnace burst, overwhelming some twenty men in a stream of molten metal —Times Literary Supp., 30 July 1971
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