Think of it as water closing over something until it is completely under. The key picture is not just 'wet' but 'covered over, with no gap left' — the surface closes above you and there is nowhere for air, sound, or you to get out. Every other use of drown keeps that same shape: something floods in, covers something else entirely, and what was underneath can no longer be heard, tasted, or coped with.

「水漫過來,把東西整個蓋掉」。重點不只是「濕了」,而是「蓋滿了、沒有留縫」——水面在你頭頂上方合起來,空氣出不去、聲音出不來、你也上不來。drown 的每一個用法都保留這個形狀:某個東西大量湧進來,把另一個東西整個覆蓋住,於是底下那個就再也聽不到、嚐不到、或應付不了了。所以判斷一句話裡的 drown 該怎麼理解,就看「湧進來的是什麼」——是水、是聲音、是醬汁,還是情緒。

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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Drownname

  • 1

    A surname.

drownverb/dɹaʊn/

  • 1

    To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

    • When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.
    • Old woes, not infant sorrows, bear them mild / Continuance tames the one; the other wild, / Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still, / With too much labour drowns for want of skill.
  • 2

    To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

    • The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.
    • The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me, / Knowing that thou wouldst have me drown’d on shore, / With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness:
  • 3

    To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

    • We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.
    • Penny Guy: Bloody hell, Rog, whadda you want? / Roger O'Neill: To drown in your arms and hide in yer eyes, darlin'.
  • 4

    To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

    • He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.
    • Though most men being in sensuall pleasures drownd, / It seemes their Soules but in the Senses are.
  • 5

    To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

    • The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。