Overflow

(noun.) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity.

(verb.) flow or run over (a limit or brim).

手打:弗拉德

• Every housewife knows that if a kettle is filled with cold water to begin with, there will be an overflow as soon as the water becomes heated. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This had caused an overflow into the intake pipe, which in turn interfere d with the action of a valve. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• For answer, she let the tears on her lids overflow and run slowly downward. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Eight hundred thousand pounds, therefore, must overflow, that sum being over and above what can be employed in the circulation of the country. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And in the unwonted overflow of his feelings, he left a cousinly kiss upon her cheek. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Whatever, therefore, is poured into it beyond this sum, cannot run into it, but must overflow. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Her profile did not stir, but he saw a tear overflow on her lashes and hang in a mesh of her veil. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Some miles from New Carthage the levee to Bayou Vidal was broken in several places, overflowing the roads for the distance of two miles. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• After this the remaining pap of plaster of Paris is added until the frame is full to overflowing. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Let us not for a moment forget our object and our hope; and they will form a resistless mound to stop the overflowing of our regret for trifles. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• And I was that nearest person--brimful of comfort, charged to overflowing with seasonable and reviving words. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• From these basins the water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime, which effectually prevents their overflowing. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• There were our Mohammedan servants, a Latin monk, two Armenians and a Jew in our cortege, and all alike gazed with overflowing eyes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I took my aunt in my arms--my overflowing tenderness was not to be satisfied, now, with anything less than an embrace. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I told her that my heart overflowed with love for her, that it was natural love which nothing in the past had changed or could change. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Yet my heart overflowed with kindness, and the love of virtue. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The river was very high, the banks being overflowed except where the bluffs come to the water's edge. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Even spies could not get near him, on account of the undergrowth and overflowed lands. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The bayous were soon filled and much of the country was overflowed. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Tom's whole soul overflowed with compassion and sympathy for the poor wretches by whom he was surrounded. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Moreover, the pedagogic spirit overflows in the human mind; most people like telling other people not to. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• How could you do otherwise, being totally destitute of the sympathies with which he overflows! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

手打:莫尔