- 1淹水、水災、氾濫（土地被水蓋住的情況）。
Flooding is when land that is usually dry ends up under water. Heavy rain, a river coming over its sides, a broken dam, or the sea coming in can all cause it. Houses, roads, and fields can sit under water for hours or days. We use flooding for the situation — water covering the place — and flood for the event, though people mix them in real talk: There was flooding in the south and There was a flood can point at the same news. After a storm, like flooding because they mean water lying on the land, not one single rush. People stretch it too: a shop can flood the market with cheap goods, or a room can be flooded with light. Those are pictures borrowed from water. The home meaning is water on the land.
From the word’s history
flood + -ing; flood is from Middle English flod; cognate with Dutch vloed and German Flut.
就是 flood 加上 -ing；flood 源自中古英文 flod。
組成flood (water covering land) + -ing (the situation going on).
同家族的字
- floodthe water event this is built from
- floodwaterthe water itself during a flood
原始詞典資料4 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。
floodingnoun/ˈflʌdɪŋ/
- 1
An act of flooding; a flood or gush.
- And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!
- [...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.
- 2
human-sciencespsychologysciencesEmotional overwhelm sometimes leading to a primal state of rage or panic.
- 3
human-sciencespsychologysciencesA form of therapy that treats a phobia by suddenly exposing the patient to the object of the phobia, instead of approaching it gradually.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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