Overwhelm

(verb.) charge someone with too many tasks.

(verb.) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli.

贝蒂整理

• Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me, and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Ah, I might have trusted you to find your own way out--don't overwhelm me with the sense of my officiousness! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Yet she shuddered with a sense of nausea, a sort of seasickness that always threatened to overwhelm her mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I had expected him, naturally enough under the circumstances, to overwhelm me with questions. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The Count, at last issuing from his dreadnoughtthreatened to overwhelm her with it as with an avalanche. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Sometimes they overwhelm and submerge and discourage. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In France--who, knowing me to have been a prisoner in the Bastille, would touch me, except to overwhelm me with embraces, or carry me in triumph. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• My sweet little lady overwhelmed me with dismay; her air of native elegance froze my very marrow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We heard without sympathy the protestations with which he tried next to persuade us that the disclosure of the conspiracy had overwhelmed him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But they were overwhelmed at last, as was the whole British army by this time. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The job had overwhelmed him a little. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He had actually arrived at twelve o'clock, and appeared to be overwhelmed by the unexpected tragedy. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She was overwhelmed with a sense of a heavenful of riches. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Overwhelmed by the exquisite triumph of having got him back among us, I let him do what he liked with my hands. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• You have been in love, Mr Carriston, and you know how such a passion overwhelms the strongest man. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• With his mind apparently relieved from an overwhelming weight, by having at last got an order for something, the waiter imperceptibly melted away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• They were sustained by what seemed an overwhelming force of disciplined troops. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And then Prince took her arm in his and turned with great emotion and respect to his father, whose deportment at that moment was overwhelming. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I am overwhelming you with money--in my expansive intentions--if you only knew it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Plays and novels have indeed an overwhelming political importance, as the moderns have maintained. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• To him, the wonder of this transit was overwhelming. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake, it split, and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.

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