flood

英 [flʌd] 美 [flʌd]
  • vt. 淹没;充满;溢出
  • vi. 涌出;涌进;为水淹没
  • n. 洪水;泛滥;一大批
  • n. (Flood)人名;(英)弗勒德;(瑞典、芬)弗洛德

中文词源


flood 洪水

来自PIE*pleu, 流动,词源同flow, float, pluvial. 用来指洪水。

英文词源


flood
flood: [OE] Flood goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *flōthuz, which also produced German flut, Dutch vloed, and Swedish flod ‘flood’. It was derived ultimately from Indo- European *plō-, a variant of *pleu- ‘flow, float’ which also produced English fleet, float, fly, fledge, and fowl.
=> fleet, float, fly, fowl
flood (n.)
Old English flōd "a flowing of water, tide, an overflowing of land by water, a deluge, Noah's Flood; mass of water, river, sea, wave," from Proto-Germanic *floduz "flowing water, deluge" (cognates: Old Frisian flod, Old Norse floð, Middle Dutch vloet, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Gothic flodus), from the source of Old English flowan, from PIE verbal root *pleu- "to flow, float, swim" (see pluvial). In early modern English often floud. Figurative use, "a great quantity, a sudden abundance," by mid-14c.
flood (v.)
1660s, "to overflow" (transitive), from flood (n.). Intransitive sense "to rise in a flood" is from 1755. Related: Flooded; flooding.

双语例句


1. Infectious diseases are spreading among many of the flood victims.
传染病正在遭受洪灾的很多灾民中蔓延。

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2. The flood of cars has now slowed to a trickle.
汹涌的车流现在已经变得稀稀拉拉。

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3. The sight of him entering a room could flood her with desire.
见到他进入房间会让她心中欲望澎湃。

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4. Flood waters washed away one of the main bridges in Pusan.
洪水冲垮了釜山的一座主要桥梁。

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5. He received a flood of letters from irate constituents.
他收到愤怒的选区居民洪水般涌来的信件。

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