flooded
flooded — 形容詞
- floodedpositive
- more floodedcomparative
- most floodedsuperlative
1. having so much water on a surface or inside a space that the place can no longer
淹水的
被水覆蓋、無法正常使用的
having so much water on a surface or inside a space that the place can no longer be used normally, often after heavy rain or a burst pipe.
The flooded basement smelled of mud and rotting wood after the storm.
暴風雨過後，淹水的地下室散發出泥土和腐爛木頭的味道。
attributive: flooded + noun (basement, road, field)
Ada waded through the flooded street in her tall rubber boots.
Ada 穿著長筒膠靴，涉水走過淹水的街道。
Rescue boats moved slowly across the flooded rice fields outside the village.
救援船在村外淹水的稻田裡緩緩前進。
The kitchen floor was completely flooded by the time Vikram turned off the tap.
等到 Vikram 關掉水龍頭時，廚房地板已經完全淹水了。
predicative: be flooded by [cause]
Drone footage showed flooded neighbourhoods stretching for miles along the river.
空拍畫面顯示淹水的社區沿著河岸綿延數英里。
- flooded basement
- flooded street
- flooded field
- badly flooded
- completely flooded
- submerged
more formal; suggests fully under water
- waterlogged
soaked through, often of ground or wood
- inundated
formal; used in news reports
用法筆記
Frequently attributive (a flooded street) or predicative with a cause phrase (be flooded by rain / by a burst pipe). The water is usually unwanted and disruptive.
常見錯誤
2. having such a large quantity of something arriving or filling a place that it fe
充斥的
大量人事物如洪水般湧入的
having such a large quantity of something arriving or filling a place that it feels like a flood — for example, a station full of commuters, an inbox full of emails, or a market full of cheap goods.
After the show aired, the helpline was flooded with calls from worried parents.
節目播出後，求助熱線被擔心的家長打來的電話淹沒。
be flooded with + noun (calls, emails, requests)
Elena's inbox was flooded with messages the morning her book launched.
Elena 的書上市那天早上，她的信箱被訊息塞爆。
The market was flooded with cheap imports, and small farmers could not compete.
市場上充斥著廉價進口商品，小農根本無法競爭。
be flooded with + cheap/foreign goods (economic context)
By noon the museum was flooded with school groups on their annual trip.
到了中午，博物館擠滿了一年一度校外教學的學生團體。
Yan felt suddenly flooded with happy memories when she opened the old photo album.
Yan 翻開舊相簿時，腦中突然湧入許多快樂的回憶。
metaphorical: flooded with + emotion/memory
- flooded with messages
- flooded with calls
- flooded with memories
- flooded with imports
- flooded with applicants
- starved
having too little instead of too much (starved of attention)
文法句型
be flooded with + noun
用法筆記
Almost always passive with 'with' (be flooded with X), where X is a large quantity of messages, people, goods, or emotions. Distinguish from sense 1: this sense is about quantity, not literal water.