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Picture a wave that comes in far bigger than you are and simply covers you — you can't push back against it, you can only be under it. Overwhelming describes anything that arrives at that scale: a feeling too strong to handle, a place with too much happening at once, or a number so far ahead of the others that nothing else stands a chance.
可以想成一道遠遠大過你的浪打過來，直接把你蓋住——你推不回去，只能待在它底下。凡是以這種規模到來的東西都可以叫 ov…更多收起
可以想成一道遠遠大過你的浪打過來，直接把你蓋住——你推不回去，只能待在它底下。凡是以這種規模到來的東西都可以叫 overwhelming：強到承受不住的感覺、一次湧進太多東西的場面，或是大到讓其他選項完全沒機會的數字。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
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overwhelmingadj/ˌəʊvəˈwɛlmɪŋ/
- 1
Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
- The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.
- It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.
- 2
Very great or intense.
- 3
Extreme.
overwhelmingnoun/ˌəʊvəˈwɛlmɪŋ/
- 1
A situation of being overwhelmed.
- They have centuries of premodern experience in coping with being overwhelmed in multiple ways—not only by God, but also by other overwhelmings that have always been part of the human condition, such as disease, famine, war […]
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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。