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

• It's a great moment of film which overwhelms the viewer with the idea of time.
  这是这部电影中最棒的一刻，让观众体会到时间的概念。
• 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。
• Viscosity overwhelms the smallest eddies and converts their energy into heat.
  粘性制服了最小的旋涡而将其能量转换为热。
• He says now both men have a limited amount of time to show progress before the violence in Gaza overwhelms the fragile peace process begun last year at the Annapolis conference.
  他说，在加沙的暴力摧毁去年安纳波利斯会议开始的脆弱和平进程之前，他们两人只有有限的时间来取得进展。
• Spammers will often not be content to post one or two messages, but will often flood forums with their messages, until it overwhelms the desired subject matter.
  垃圾信息散布者通常都不会满足于只发布一两个消息，而是会向论坛狂发消息，直至垃圾消息淹没了本来的主题。
• But this dopamine overload also overwhelms the D2 receptors on the receiving cells, and those cells eventually react by reducing the number of D2 receptors.
  但是多巴胺负荷过度也会抑制细胞上的D2受体，这些细胞最终通过减少D2受体数量拮抗多巴胺的作用。
• 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。
• Lavish and exotic, the Maserati overwhelms the senses in the way you remember Claudia Cardinale or Gina Lollobrigida.
  这款玛莎拉蒂轿车既奢华又别具异域风情，给人的感觉就像好莱坞女星克劳迪娅•卡汀娜或吉娜•劳洛勃丽吉达，以万种的风情压倒你的感官。
• By doing so, he appears tiny in comparison to the dramatic setting that seemingly overwhelms his character, giving us a very interesting look at the emotional impact of light and space.
  这样做，他似乎在比较小的戏剧性设置看似压倒他的性格，使我们在光与空间的情绪影响非常有趣的外观。
• 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。