水淹過來（字面）
這一族是核心畫面的字面版本：真的有水，蓋過去的後果是不能呼吸。
die underwater · verb · B2
To die because you have been under water too long and cannot breathe, or to kill a person or an animal in this way.
溺水；淹死
核心畫面
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…更多收起
「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。Three branches
被大量的東西蓋過
同樣是「湧進來蓋滿、不留縫」，只是這次淹沒的對象不是人的呼吸，而是聲音或食物本身的味道。
be too loud to hear (drown out) · verb · B2
If a loud sound drowns another sound, it is so loud that the other sound cannot be heard. It is usually used as drown out.
蓋過（聲音）
被情緒或麻煩淹沒
還是「多到蓋過頭頂」，只是這次淹上來的是情緒或問題，被淹沒的是一個人應付事情的能力。
be overwhelmed by a feeling or problem · verb · B2
To have so much of a strong feeling, or such a big problem, that you cannot deal with it. It is used as drown in something.
深陷；被…淹沒
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。
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.
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。