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N-VAR
洪水;水災
If there is a flood, a large amount of water covers an area which is usually dry, for example when a river flows over its banks or a pipe bursts.
例句
More than 70 people were killed in the floods, caused when a dam burst...
大壩決口造成洪災，70 多人因此喪生。
This is the type of flood dreaded by cavers...
這正是洞穴探險者害怕的那種洪水。
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V-ERG
淹沒;使充滿水
If something such as a river or a burst pipe floods an area that is usually dry or if the area floods, it becomes covered with water.
例句
The Chicago River flooded the city's underground tunnel system...
芝加哥河的河水淹沒了城市的地下隧道系統。
The kitchen flooded.
廚房被水淹了。
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VERB
(尤指暴雨后河水)泛濫
If a river floods, it overflows, especially after very heavy rain.
例句
...the relentless rain that caused twenty rivers to flood...
引發了 20 條河流泛濫的持續降水
Many streams have flooded their banks, making some roads impassable.
許多小河的水已經漫過堤岸，造成一些道路不能通行。
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N-COUNT
大量;大批
If you say that a flood of people or things arrive somewhere, you are emphasizing that a very large number of them arrive there.
例句
The administration is trying to stem the flood of refugees out of Haiti and into Florida...
政府當局正試圖阻止大批難民逃離海地，進入佛羅里達。
He received a flood of letters from irate constituents.
他收到憤怒的選區居民洪水般涌來的信件。
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VERB
大批涌入;大量云集
If you say that people or things flood into a place, you are emphasizing that they arrive there in large numbers.
例句
Large numbers of immigrants flooded into the area...
大量移民涌入這個地區。
Enquiries flooded in from all over the world.
世界各地的問詢紛至沓來。
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VERB
(使)充滿;(使)充斥
If you flood a place with a particular type of thing, or if a particular type of thing floods a place, the place becomes full of so many of them that it cannot hold or deal with any more.
例句
...a policy aimed at flooding Europe with exports...
一項旨在讓進口產品充斥歐洲市場的政策
Brokers expect the markets to be flooded with the shares...
股票經紀人預計股市會充斥著這種股票。
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VERB
(情感等)充滿，使感受強烈，涌上心頭
If an emotion, feeling, or thought floods you, you suddenly feel it very intensely. If feelings or memories flood back, you suddenly remember them very clearly.
例句
A wave of happiness flooded me...
我心中涌起一股幸福的暖流。
Mary Ann was flooded with relief ...
瑪麗·安感到無比寬慰。
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VERB
(光線)充滿，照進
If light floods a place or floods into it, it suddenly fills it.
例句
The afternoon light flooded the little rooms...
午后的陽光灑滿一間間小屋。
Morning sunshine flooded in through the open curtains.
清晨的陽光透過拉開的窗簾照射進來。
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PHRASE
(河水)泛濫
If a river is in flood, it is flowing over its banks because it has more water in it than normal.
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PHRASE
淚如雨下;號啕大哭
If you say that someone was in floods of tears or in a flood of tears, you are emphasizing that they were crying with great intensity because they were very upset.
例句
The pain was so bad that I would be in floods of tears...
疼痛難忍，我就快大哭起來了。
They said goodbye in a flood of tears.
他們痛哭流涕地道別。
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PHRASAL VERB
(洪水)迫使…離開，淹沒，沖毀
If people, places, or things are flooded out, the water from a flood makes it impossible for people to stay in that place or to use that thing.
例句
Train lines were flooded out...
鐵路線被洪水沖毀。
The river flooded them out every few years.
每隔幾年他們就會因這條河的泛濫而被迫離開家園。