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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 darkness that is often present in his films but never overwhelms them, emerges when he talks to Ms. Sunada about cursed dreams and he tells her: How do we know movies are even worthwhile?
  他的影片中经常出现黑暗，但黑暗从未压倒一切，然而在他与砂田麻美谈起被诅咒的梦想时，这种黑暗再度浮现出来，我们怎么知道这些电影是有价值的？
• They're considerably slower than a join on a relational database, but, as a result, it is much harder to create a query that overwhelms the data store.
  这要比关系数据库上的连接慢得多，因此很难创建一个让数据存储超负荷的查询。
• 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。
• The sheen of her black feathers overwhelms the shine of the moon.
  她黑色羽毛的光泽压倒了月亮的光辉。