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

• 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。
• 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。
• Anacondas live in swamps, marshes, and slow-moving streams, mainly in the tropical rain forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins.
  它们生活在沼泽，湿地和水流缓慢的溪流中，主要分布在亚马逊热带丛林和奥里诺科河盆地。
• The water bucks take shallow swamps as their habitats and aquatic plants as staple food.
  水羚栖息在水深不淹没青草的浅滩中，以水草为主食。
• 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。
• Ahead, men were floundering in the dark swamps.
  前面，人们正在暗幽的沼泽地里挣扎着。
• Tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds.
  蓝果树；在潮湿的产地特别是沼泽和池塘边的每年落叶的乔木。
• The delta region of the Rio Grande river was a forsaken land of thickets and swamps.
  里奥格兰德河三角洲曾是一片遍布荆棘和沼泽的荒废之地。
• Irises are found in deserts and in swamps, in hot and cold climates.
  菖蒲在沙漠中发现和沼泽，在炎热和寒冷的气候。
• 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。