From the word’s history
From Middle English drownen, drounen, of obscure and uncertain origin.
源自中古英文 drounen，更早來源不明。
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.
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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。