1.[c][u]沼泽(地)an area of ground that is very wet or covered with water and in which plants, trees, etc. are growing
tropical swamps热带沼泽
1.使不堪承受;使疲于应对;使应接不暇to make sb have more of sth than they can deal with
The department was swamped with job applications.面对纷至沓来的求职申请,这个部门疲于应对。
In summer visitors swamp the island.夏天,这个岛上游客熙熙攘攘,人满为患。
2.~ sth淹;淹没to fill or cover sth with a lot of water
The little boat was swamped by the waves.小船被大浪淹没了。
Playing ball in the swamp is like a slow-motion movie coming to a halt every time a player sinks in a hole, she said.
布洛克说,每当有球员陷进坑里时,泥浆足球比赛就好比慢镜头电影。
Less than an hour away from the chaotic heart of New Orleans lays a primordial backwater morass known as the Honey Island Swamp.
从新奥尔良的混乱的中心不到一个小时的路程有一个原始的被称为蜂蜜岛沼泽的“回水泥沼”。
And that swamp music, you know, swamp funk, swampy blues, swamp rock, whatever, it sounds like those places.
而沼泽音乐,你知道,沼泽韵律,沼泽蓝调,沼泽摇滚等等,它听起来像那些地方。
He thought that, if waked up from a trance, in this swamp, he could tell by the plants what time of the year it was within two days.
他这样想,如果在这片水沼,从一场昏睡中醒来,他可以通过周围植物确定一年中的日期,误差不超过两天。
Prokhorov's attack was edited out of the evening news and seemed to vanish, like a spark that had been swallowed by a swamp.
普罗霍罗夫的攻击从晚间新闻中被删除,就像一个被沼泽吞噬的火花一样似乎消失了。
In the same year, was also in Donegal over the swamp to see a flying projectile, like a household iron.
同一年,有人又在多尼戈尔沼泽上空看到一个飞行的抛射物,状似一个家用熨斗。
So they turned round and began to go back in the other direction, on the road into the swamp.
他们转身从另一个方向往回走,他们走在通往沼泽的路上。
He selected a fine 30-mile stretch of a Florida Everglade mangrove swamp and had it surveyed into a grid.
他在佛罗里达的埃弗格莱兹地区选了一块30英里长的优良的红树林沼泽,把它一格格地勘查了一遍。
She takes aim, kills the creature and with a great deal of effort hauls it on to the swamp bank.
她的目的,杀死怪兽,并以极大的努力,但长久来对沼泽银行。
The approach to this was through a succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitch pines, into a larger wood about the swamp.
到这泉水边去,得穿过一连串草木蓊蔚的洼地,那里长满了苍松的幼树,最后到达沼泽附近的一座较大的森林。
Only yesterday he had heard one of the mates say that they ought to throw her overboard before her tears could swamp the ship.
就是昨天他还听到一个自由人船员说他们应该在她的眼泪淹了船之前把她丢下海。
2007 is shaping up to be the most exciting year since the community drove off the XML highway into the Web services swamp half a decade ago.
自五年前社区将XML的快速发展应用到Web服务以后,2007注定会成为最激动人心的一年。
One of his first designs was an extrapolation of a Star Wars-style swamp boat, inspired by the fan boats used here on Earth.
他最早的设计之一是一种后来很有《星球大战》风格的沼泽艇,其灵感来源于在地球上使用的风扇机船。
It raises a question: was the path that Mr Koizumi chose to get Japan out of the economic swamp misguided, at least in part?
这提出了一个问题:小泉当时选择的拯救日本的道路是不是,至少一定程度上,走错方向了?
There's a saying that goes: "When you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that you were there to drain the swamp. "
有一个谚语:“当您的脖子即将进入鳄鱼的口中,您很难记得您是处于将要陷于沼泽的状况。”
they hired me to throw it a rope and put it out of the swamp.
他们希望我能把它从困境中拯救出来。
The front yard was an icy swamp, and a couple of warped planks, extending from the sidewalk to the door, made a sort of rickety footbridge.
前院成了一个泛着冰碴儿的烂泥塘。过道与房门之间,用几块翘曲的木板搭起了一条晃晃悠悠的栈道。
Supposedly as he sat in his swamp all day denying himself the finer things in life he thought about God.
据说,他整日坐在这片沼泽中,并拒绝尘世中的一切奢华,他一心只向着上帝。
Creatures in the swamp where Shrek lives are all afraid of him.
跟史瑞克住在同一个沼泽里的生物都很怕他。
I for one believe it all started in the rich and fragrant swamp muds , full of every kind of nutrients.
我却相信,它们开始于肥沃而芬香的沼泽泥土中,那是有着丰富的营养。
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