【句子】I've been so swamped. I must have forgotten to pay the electric bill. 【Desperate Housewives S2E5】

【发音技巧】must have击穿+连读；the electric重读the；

【翻译】我太忙了，肯定是忘记交电费了。

今天我们一起来学习一下这样一个单词，叫做swamped；

这个动词swamp，其实可以用来表示：“用很多的水覆盖；淹没”这样的意思；

那像今天视频当中这样的用法，其实是结合了被动语态。

be swamped by sth./sb. 其实字面意思是：“被某个事物/人所淹没”；

其实就是“对方让自己承担了过多的负荷”，有的时候也可以理解成“过于忙碌”这样的意思；

If you are swamped by things or people, you have more of them than you can deal with.

eg: He is swamped with work.

他工作忙得不可开交。

eg: The railway station was swamped with thousands of families trying to flee the city.

火车站挤满了成千上万想要逃离这座城市的家庭。

eg: The boat was swamped by an enormous wave.

这艘船被巨浪淹没了。

eg: We've been absolutely swamped ever since the famous actor mentioned our company in one of his social media posts.

自从那个出名的男演员在他的社交媒体上发文提到我们公司以后，我们简直应接不暇。

eg: I'd love to come and see your game tomorrow, son, but I'm totally swamped with work right now.

我也想明天去看你的比赛，儿子，但是我现在工作忙得不可开交。

eg: Don’t let feelings of depression swamp you.

别让绝望的情绪淹没了你。

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I can’t handle it now. I’m swamped.

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