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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...
他們的船在暴風雨中傾覆后有 48 人溺亡。
A child can drown in only a few inches of water...
兒童在只有幾英寸深的水中就可能溺亡。
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VERB
淹沒（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.
我們淹沒在大量的數據中卻找不到有用的信息。
...people who gradually find themselves drowning in debt...
漸漸發現自己債臺高筑的人們
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VERB
蓋過,淹沒(聲音)
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...
鼓掌聲一度淹沒了發言人的聲音。
The conversation was drowned by the arrival of the taxi.
到來的出租車的聲音壓過了談話的聲音。
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PHRASE
借酒澆愁
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.