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

• If it is to have any chance of competing as a global financial centre with other Asian cities, as India wants, it must act decisively before the tide of humanity overwhelms it.
  如果它希望像印度政府所希望的那样，有机会作为全球金融中心与其它亚洲城市竞争的话，就必须在被人潮淹没之前，果断地采取行动。
• Control panel overwhelms with levers, buttons and lights.
  满是杠杆，按钮和灯的控制面板。
• As a consequence, terror overwhelms the person to the point of making irrational choices and non-typical behavior.
  结果，可怕的感觉占据了那个人，以至于他会做出无理性的选择和非正常的行为。
• 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？
• In some souls, the discordant note becomes harsher and harsher and finally overwhelms or submerges the main melody.
  在某些心中，反面谐音会越来越忤耳，最终公然能覆盖主曲；
• 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。
• 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。
• Tuning and configuring an IDS database can be a complex process that sometimes overwhelms new DBAs.
  对IDS数据库进行调优和配置是一个复杂的过程，有时候会让经验不足的DBA感到棘手。
• 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。
• Huawei can make similar pledges, but the whiff of the state in its background overwhelms its words.
  华为可以做出类似的承诺，但其背景中的政府身影压倒了它的表态。