Swamp

(noun.) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.

(noun.) a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; 'he was trapped in a medical swamp'.

(verb.) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; 'The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor'.

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• Houston lived some distance from the town and generally went home late at night, having to pass through a dark cypress swamp over a corduroy road. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There was about two feet of water in this swamp at the time. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The abundant remains of these first swamp forests constitute the main coal-measures of the world to-day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Look, how muddy his horse is, flouncing about in the swamp; the dogs, too, look rather crestfallen. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It is a swamp adder! 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• In the Later Pal?ozoic Period that visitant might have been equally sure that life could not go beyond the edge of a swamp. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is only a narrow swamp that we have to pass in a long journey. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Inexperienced in government, she plunged into all manner of useless expenditure, and swamped her treasury almost in a day. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It was as if some reservoir of black emotion had burst within him, and swamped him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The company was soon swamped with propositions for sale of territorial rights and with other negotiations, and some of these were accompanied by the offer of very large sums of money. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The clearing-house for gold had been swamped, and all was mixed up. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Instead of urging that issues are inevitable, instead of being swamped by problems that are unavoidable, we may stand up and affirm the issues we propose to handle. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I don't intend to be swamped by redcoats. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I should be sorry were it otherwise, as, were it lower, we might run a chance of being swamped by the influx of waters. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• There's two runaways in the swamps. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The range of life of the Upper Pal?ozoic Period was confined to warm water or to warm swamps and wet ground. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It not only lets occasions for thinking go unused, but it swamps thinking. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• What seems plainer than that the long toes, not furnished with membrane, of the Grallatores, are formed for walking over swamps and floating plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• As Cassy expected, when quite near the verge of the swamps that encircled the plantation, they heard a voice calling to them to stop. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• This strip of land from ocean to ocean abounded in disease-breeding swamps and filthy habitations unfit for human beings. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Barlow pushed forward with great vigor, under a heavy fire of both artillery and musketry, through thickets and swamps. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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