flood

英[fl?d] 美[fl?d]

復(fù)數(shù):?floods;第三人稱單數(shù):?floods;過(guò)去式:?flooded;過(guò)去分詞:?flooded;現(xiàn)在分詞:?flooding;形容詞:?flooded;

flood 洪水

來(lái)自PIE*pleu, 流動(dòng)，詞源同flow, float, pluvial. 用來(lái)指洪水。

flood: flood: [OE] Flood goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *flōthuz, which also produced German flut, Dutch vloed, and Swedish flod ‘flood’. It was derived ultimately from Indo- European *plō-, a variant of *pleu- ‘flow, float’ which also produced English fleet, float, fly, fledge, and fowl.
=> fleet, float, fly, fowl
flood (n.): Old English flōd "a flowing of water, tide, an overflowing of land by water, a deluge, Noah's Flood; mass of water, river, sea, wave," from Proto-Germanic *floduz "flowing water, deluge" (cognates: Old Frisian flod, Old Norse floe, Middle Dutch vloet, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Gothic flodus), from the source of Old English flowan, from PIE verbal root *pleu- "to flow, float, swim" (see pluvial). In early modern English often floud. Figurative use, "a great quantity, a sudden abundance," by mid-14c.
flood (v.): 1660s, "to overflow" (transitive), from flood (n.). Intransitive sense "to rise in a flood" is from 1755. Related: Flooded; flooding.

1. Infectious diseases are spreading among many of the flood victims.: 傳染病正在遭受洪災(zāi)的很多災(zāi)民中蔓延。

2. The flood of cars has now slowed to a trickle.: 洶涌的車流現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)變得稀稀拉拉。

3. The sight of him entering a room could flood her with desire.: 見到他進(jìn)入房間會(huì)讓她心中欲望澎湃。

4. Flood waters washed away one of the main bridges in Pusan.: 洪水沖垮了釜山的一座主要橋梁。

5. He received a flood of letters from irate constituents.: 他收到憤怒的選區(qū)居民洪水般涌來(lái)的信件。