swamps

英 [swɒmps]

美 [swɑːmps]

n.  沼泽(地)
v.  使不堪承受; 使疲于应对; 使应接不暇; 淹; 淹没
swamp的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 沼泽(地)
  Aswampis an area of very wet land with wild plants growing in it.
• VERB 淹没;浸没
  If somethingswampsa place or object, it fills it with water.
  1. A rogue wave swamped the boat...
     凶猛的海浪淹没了船只。
  2. The Ventura river burst its banks, swamping a mobile home park.
     本图拉河的河水冲破堤岸，淹没了活动房区。
• VERB 使不堪承受;使疲于应对;使应接不暇
  If youare swampedby things or people, you have more of them than you can deal with.
  1. He is swamped with work...
     他工作忙得不可开交。
  2. The railway station was swamped with thousands of families trying to flee the city.
     火车站挤满了成千上万想要逃离这座城市的家庭。

双语例句

• Maybe you'd better strike out for the swamps till he changes his mind and cools off some.
  也许你最好还是到沼泽地去，等他改变了主意，头脑冷静一点再说。
• It is a region of rounded hills and tens of thousands of lakes and swamps.
  该地多圆顶丘陵，还有几万个湖泊和沼泽地。
• The wild is more than just an expanse of tangled forests, stagnant swamps and windswept plains.
  荒野不仅仅是宽广纠结的森林、滞淤塞的沼泽和暴风肆虐的平原。
• It is a complex ecosystem, including forest, mountains, gorges, lakes, streams, grasslands, swamps and wetlands, and provides a wide habitat for rare and endemic species of animals and plants.
  保护区为一个复合生态系统，包括森林、山脉、沟壑、湖泊、溪流、沼泽、湿地，为珍稀和地方性动植物提供了一个广阔的栖息地。
• Birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark.
  遍及美国东部的一种桦树，生长在沼泽和河谷，具红褐色树皮。
• Coral reefs and mangrove swamps are also breeding places for many fishes.
  珊瑚礁和红树林沼泽也是许多鱼类的繁殖之地。
• At length these denizens of the swamps disappeared in their turn.
  到了后来，连这些沼泽国的居民们也不见了。
• The immigrants were employed building turnpikes and canals, and they died like flies in the swamps.
  移民们被招来修筑公路和运河，他们在沼泽地区大批死去。
• The incoming tide brings new creatures into the swamps.
  上涨了的潮水为沼泽带来了其他生物。
• Towering mountains, vast plains, and murky swamps bring depth to World of Warcraft's landscape.
  高耸的山脉、广阔的平原和泥泞的沼泽让WoW世界地貌多样化。