flood /flʌd/ CET4 TEM4 ( flooding, flooded, floods )

• 1. 

  N-VAR If there is a flood, a large amount of water covers an area which is usually dry, for example, when a river flows over its banks or a pipe bursts. 洪水

  例：

  More than 70 people were killed in the floods, caused when a dam burst.

  大坝决堤引发的洪水灾吞噬了七十多人的生命。

  例：

  This is the type of flood dreaded by cavers.

  这正是探察洞穴者惧怕的那种洪水。

• 2. 

  V-T/V-I If something such as a river or a burst pipe floods an area that is usually dry or if the area floods, it becomes covered with water. 为水所淹; 淹没

  例：

  The kitchen flooded.

  厨房被水淹了。

• 3. 

  V-I If a river floods, it overflows, especially after very heavy rain. 泛滥

  例：

  ...the relentless rain that caused twenty rivers to flood.

  …导致20条河流泛滥的那场持续不断的雨。

• 4. 

  V-I If you say that people or things flood into a place, you are emphasizing that they arrive there in large numbers. 涌入 [强调]

  例：

  Large numbers of immigrants flooded into the area.

  大批移民涌入了这个地区。

  例：

  Inquiries flooded in from all over the world.

  问询从世界各地如潮水般涌来。

• 5. 

  V-T If you flood a place with a particular type of thing, or if a particular type of thing floods a place, the place becomes full of so many of them that it cannot hold or deal with any more. 使充满; 充斥

  例：

  Manufacturers are destroying American jobs by flooding the market with cheap imports.

  制造商们在以廉价进口货充斥市场，破坏了美国人的就业机会。

• 6. 

  N-COUNT If you say that a flood of people or things arrive somewhere, you are emphasizing that a very large number of them arrive there. 一大批 [强调]

  例：

  The administration is trying to stem the flood of refugees out of Haiti and into Florida.

  政府正设法阻止大批逃离海地的难民涌入佛罗里达。