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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".
大洪水；(比喻)大量湧入、排山倒海而來
組成From French "déluge", from Latin "diluvium": dis- (apart) + luere (to wash) — literally, a washing-apart, a great flood.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
Delugename
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The flood taking place in the story of Noah found in the Bible (Genesis) and Qur'an.
delugenoun/ˈdɛl.juː(d)ʒ/
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A great flood or rain.
- The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
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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.
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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/
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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.
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。