1. 1大洪水;(比喻)大量湧入、排山倒海而來

    A huge, sudden flood of water. Today it's used even more often in a figurative way, for a huge amount of something arriving all at once and feeling — like "a deluge of emails" or "a deluge of questions".

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組成From French "déluge", from Latin "diluvium": dis- (apart) + luere (to wash) — literally, a washing-apart, a great flood.

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Delugename

  • 1

    The flood taking place in the story of Noah found in the Bible (Genesis) and Qur'an.

delugenoun/ˈdɛl.juː(d)ʒ/

  • 1

    A great flood or rain.

    • The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
  • 2

    An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.

    • The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
    • A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
  • 3

    firefightinggovernmentA system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.

    • deluge system, deluge gun, deluge set
    • 2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.

delugeverb/ˈdɛl.juː(d)ʒ/

  • 1

    To flood with water.

    • Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.
    • South Yorkshire 2019: The track at Conisbrough is deluged by floodwater. Lines were shut and services were disrupted across Yorkshire and the East Midlands.
  • 2

    To overwhelm.

    • After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.
    • In Women on the Verge all of the characters are deluged by and constantly dealing with the effects and messages of pop culture.

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