deluge

noun

1. 暴雨；大雨；洪水
   a sudden very heavy fall of rain
2. 涌现的事物；蜂拥而至的事物
   a large number of things that happen or arrive at the same time
   1. a deluge of calls/complaints/letters
      接连不断的电话；没完没了的投诉；纷至沓来的信件

verb

1. 使涌来；使充满
   to send or give sb/sth a large number of things at the same time
   1. We have been deluged with applications for the job.
      申请这个工作的求职信使我们应接不暇。
2. 泛滥；淹没
   to flood a place with water
   1. The campsite was deluged by a flash flood.
      露营地被突发的洪水淹没。

1. N-COUNT 大量涌来;大批泛滥
   A deluge of things is a large number of them which arrive or happen at the same time.
   1. A deluge of manuscripts began to arrive in the post...
      大量的手稿开始通过邮递涌来。
   2. This has brought a deluge of criticism.
      这一下子招来了铺天盖地的批评。
2. VERB 使涌现;使充满
   If a place or person is deluged with things, a large number of them arrive or happen at the same time.
   1. During 1933, Papen's office was deluged with complaints.
      1933 年间，大量的投诉信涌进了巴本的办公室。
3. N-COUNT 暴雨;(突降的)大雨
   A deluge is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
   1. About a dozen homes were damaged in the deluge.
      在这场暴雨中大约有十几家房屋被毁。
4. VERB (暴雨)袭击，使泛滥
   If rain deluges a place, it falls very heavily there, sometimes causing floods.
   1. At least 150 people are believed to have died after two days of torrential rain deluged the capital.
      连续两天的滂沱大雨致使首都积水成灾，据信至少已有 150 人死亡。

1. A deluge of manuscripts began to arrive in the post
   大量的手稿开始通过邮递涌来。
2. This has brought a deluge of criticism.
   这一下子招来了铺天盖地的批评。
3. During 1933, Papen's office was deluged with complaints.
   1933年间，大量的投诉信涌进了巴本的办公室。
4. About a dozen homes were damaged in the deluge.
   在这场暴雨中大约有十几家房屋被毁。
5. Without software to help filter and organize based on factors we deem relevant, we'd drown in the deluge.
   如果没有软件帮助我们根据我们认为相关的因素对信息进行过滤和组织，我们就会淹没在海量的信息中。
6. In the old paintings of the deluge there is a mother holding her child thus.
   在有些洪水成灾的古代油画中，一个母亲就是这样举着她的孩子的。
7. But interviewing and thoroughly evaluating every applicant, considering the deluge, would be an enormous and expensive undertaking.
   但是，由于申请人数太多，对每个人进行面试和细致的评估将会是沉重而昂贵的负担。
8. As vindication of the truth of their mission, God often vests them with miracles: Abraham was saved from fire, Noah from the deluge, and Moses from the Pharaoh.
   作为他们的使命和对真正的辩护，神经常授予他们奇迹：亚伯拉罕从火中被拯救出来，诺亚是从大洪水中获救，摩西是从法老王中获救。
9. The rain came then: a sudden deluge which pounded on the roof and agaist the windows.
   那时倾盆大雨降临了，砰砰地敲击着屋顶和窗户。
10. You could see him now, in this deluge of distraction.
    现在你在这混乱的暴雨中，能够看见他。
11. But how could such a deluge have occurred?
    但是，这样的浩劫是如何发生的？
12. I'm soaked because I got caught in a deluge without an umbrella.
    我湿透了，因为我撞上了一场暴雨而没带伞。
13. AFTER THE ICE came the deluge.
    冰川之后出现了洪水。
14. And a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains!
    随即就是一股洪水哗地一声泼下来，把这位躺在地上的殉情者的遗体浇得透湿！
15. Hundreds of children were crushed as the floors collapsed in a deluge of falling bricks and concrete.
    随着楼层的垮塌，数以百计的儿童被掩埋在如暴雨般跌落的砖块和水泥之下。
16. Judging by a sudden deluge of research reports, they now see climate change as the next big thing.
    从研究报告的突然大量涌现来判断，他们目前认为下一件大事将是气候变化。
17. When I wrote about names the other week I had a deluge of e-mails from female readers, particularly in Asia or the US, asking why I had done this.
    有一周，我写了一篇关于姓名的专栏，结果收到了大量女性读者的电子邮件，尤其是亚洲和美国的读者，问我为什么这样做。
18. Deluge: To overrun with water; inundate.
    淹没：被水淹没；使泛滥。
19. I can't go out tonight because I've got a deluge of work to do.
    今晚我不能出去了，因为我有大量的工作要做。
20. Not long ago, information overload was the bane of office life – a deluge of data inundating our workstations and destroying our collective productivity.
    不久前，信息量过大问题曾是办公室生活的毒药&泛滥的数据淹没了我们的办公室，破坏了我们的集体生产率。
21. He confused me with a deluge of polite words.
    他说了一大堆客气话使我不知所措。
22. The deluge was so torrential that even the wet tyres could not provide sufficient grip.
    暴雨大到雨胎都不足以保证赛车有足够的抓地力。
23. Fifty people drowned in the deluge.
    洪水中有五十个人被淹死。
24. After a deluge of unforecasted snow ruined our original script, I wrote a new one in just one night.
    突然下的暴雪毁坏了我们写的原稿，我仅仅用了一个晚上的时间，就又写了个新的出来。
25. The newspaper received a deluge of letters and phone calls about the article.
    关于那篇文章，报社收到了大量来信和接到了大量的电话。
26. Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Deluge.
    任何一个生活在大洪水以前的早期的创办人。
27. We discuss some developments in this area, including off-lattice structure prediction using the great deluge algorithm.
    我们讨论了这个领域的一些进展，包括使用大洪水算法进行的非晶格结构预测。
28. The little stream became a deluge after the hurricane.
    飓风一过，这条小溪流变成了滚滚洪水。
29. This is a water tower that will house a water deluge system designed to allow rockets to dump water in order to dampen vibrations from heating when ignition begins.
    这是一个水塔，将房子一水泛滥的制度设计，让火箭倾倒水，以打击从点火取暖时开始振动。

noun

1. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
   1. plains fertilized by annual inundations

   Synonym:    floodinundationalluvion

2. a heavy rain

   Synonym:    downpourcloudburstwaterspouttorrentpeltersoaker

3. an overwhelming number or amount
   1. a flood of requests
   2. a torrent of abuse

   Synonym:    floodinundationtorrent

verb

1. fill or cover completely, usually with water

   Synonym:    inundatesubmerge

2. charge someone with too many tasks

   Synonym:    overwhelmflood out

3. fill quickly beyond capacity
   1. the basement was inundated after the storm
   2. The images flooded his mind

   Synonym:    floodinundateswamp