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

• If this post overwhelms you, do not worry too much.
  如果这篇帖子吓到了您，不要太过担心。
• In both cases, the context overwhelms our ability to recognize individual achievement.
  在这两种情况下，大环境支配我们认可个人成就的能力。
• 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。
• The cost of connecting many individual point usually overwhelms the project.
  连接许多个体要点的费用通常淹没项目。
• But, like the evangelist who has seen the light and wants to share it, they come on so strong that their zeal for their beliefs overwhelms you.
  但是，像能够看到光，并想要分享它的福音传道者一样，他们强烈的热诚可能会压制您的想法。
• 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。
• Control panel overwhelms with levers, buttons and lights.
  满是杠杆，按钮和灯的控制面板。
• 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。
• The short-term profit expected from bigger clients overwhelms the decisions of the pesticide company.
  从大客户手中可能获得的短期利润是该厂作决定的主要影响因素。