Deluge

(verb.) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; 'the basement was inundated after the storm'; 'The images flooded his mind'.

编辑:塔比瑟

• The windows by no means escape the general deluge. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The world began again after a deluge and was reconstructed out of the fragments of itself. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The thunder was rolling into distance, and the rain was pouring down like a deluge, when the door of his room opened. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• What wasteful desolation have we not suffered from the deluge of a sudden shower! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall, May I but safely reach my home, My God, my Heaven, my All. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The deluge came--all hell broke loose upon the jungle. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Hence the deluge of half-observations, of verbal ideas, and unassimilated knowledge which afflicts the world. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Would not our little island be deluged by its approach? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She insisted that the Doctor should call twice a day; and deluged her patient with draughts every two hours. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• That she had a presentiment, that the tide of calamity which deluged our unhappy race had now turned. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The senseless spirit of conquest and thirst of spoil blinded them, while with insane fury they deluged the country in ruin. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

录入:奥利维尔