单词
swamp
英 [sw?mp]
美[swɑmp]
基本信息
- n. 沼泽；湿地
- vt. 使陷于沼泽；使沉没；使陷入困境
- vi. 下沉；陷入沼泽；陷入困境；不知所措（过去式swamped，过去分词swamped，现在分词swamping，第三人称单数swamps，名词swampiness，形容词swampy）
CET6TEM4CET4IELTSGRE考研TOEFL中低频词常用词汇
词态变化
复数:?swamps;第三人称单数:?swamps;过去式:?swamped;过去分词:?swamped;现在分词:?swamping;形容词:?swampy;
助记提示
1. 谐音“死亡泊”-----死亡的沼泊、沼泽泊。
2. 沼泽是一个很恐怖的地方，很容易沉入淤泥里死掉。
2. 沼泽是一个很恐怖的地方，很容易沉入淤泥里死掉。
中文词源
swamp 沼泽，淹没，使疲于应付
混 合 词 ， 来 自 中 古 英 语 swam, 沼 泽 ， 和 中 古 英 语 sompe, 沼 泽 ， 最 终 都 来 自 Proto-Germanic*sumpaz,沼泽，泥沼，词源同 sump.引申比喻义陷入沼泽，淹没，疲于应付等。
英文词源
- swamp (v.)
- "overwhelm, sink (as if in a swamp)," 1772, from swamp (n.). Figurative sense is from 1818. Related: Swamped; swamping.
- swamp (n.)
- c. 1500 (implied in swampwatyr "swamp-water"), of uncertain origin, perhaps [Barnhart] a dialectal survival from an Old English cognate of Old Norse sv?ppr "sponge, fungus," from Proto-Germanic *swampuz; but traditionally connected with Middle English sompe "morass, swamp," which probably is from Middle Dutch somp or Middle Low German sump "swamp" (see sump). All of these likely are ultimately related to each other, from PIE *swombho- "spongy; mushroom," via the notion of "spongy ground."
[B]y swamps then in general is to be understood any low grounds subject to inundations, distinguished from marshes, in having a large growth of timber, and much underwood, canes, reeds, wythes, vines, briers, and such like, so matted together, that they are in a great measure impenetrable to man or beast .... [Bernard Romans, "A Concise History of East and West Florida," 1775]
More popular in U.S. (swamp (n.) by itself is first attested 1624 in Capt. John Smith's description of Virginia). Swamp-oak is from 1680s, American English. Swamp Yankee "rural, rustic New Englander" is attested from 1941. Thornton's "American Glossary" (1912) has swamp-angel "dweller in a swamp," swamp-law "might makes right."
双语例句
- 1. In the swamp the army was beset by mosquitoes.
- 在沼泽地,该军受到蚊子的困扰.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 2. The fort flanked on a swamp.
- 堡垒侧面靠着沼泽地.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. This is a crocodile - infested swamp.
- 这是一片鳄鱼聚居的沼泽地.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The soldiers became bogged in the swamp.
- 士兵们陷在沼泽中.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 5. The swamp teems with mosquitoes.
- 这片沼泽地蚊子多极了.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
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