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

• His upland home rises high and cool above jungles and swamps of the world's sixth largest island.
  在他凉爽的家的下方是世界第六大岛的雨林和湿地。
• The wild is more than just an expanse of tangled forests, stagnant swamps and windswept plains.
  荒野不仅仅是宽广纠结的森林、滞淤塞的沼泽和暴风肆虐的平原。
• 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。
• It is a complex ecosystem, including forest, mountains, gorges, lakes, streams, grasslands, swamps and wetlands, and provides a wide habitat for rare and endemic species of animals and plants.
  保护区为一个复合生态系统，包括森林、山脉、沟壑、湖泊、溪流、沼泽、湿地，为珍稀和地方性动植物提供了一个广阔的栖息地。
• 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。
• Honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood.
  生长在美国南部沼泽地和低洼地的皂荚，有椭圆形的短荚，；出产硬而坚韧的木材。
• 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。
• There are huge alligators living in the swamps.
  沼泽里住有巨大的鳄鱼。
• 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。
• Ahead, men were floundering in the dark swamps.
  前面，人们正在暗幽的沼泽地里挣扎着。