overwhelming的意思|overwhelming的解释-里氏词典

overwhelming [,әuvә'hwelmiŋ]

a. 压倒性的, 无法抵抗的

overwhelming

[ adj ]

so strong as to be irresistible

<adj.all>

an overpowering need for solitude

the temptation to despair may become overwhelming

an overwhelming majority

very intense

<adj.all>

politics is his consuming passion

overwhelming joy

Overwhelming \O`ver*whelm"ing\, a.
Overpowering; irresistible. -- {O`ver*whelm"ing*ly}, adv.

Overwhelm \O`ver*whelm"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Overwhelmed}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Overwhelming}.]
1. To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow
and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to
immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to
oppress, etc., overpoweringly.

The sea overwhelmed their enemies. --Ps. lxxviii.
53.

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and
horror hath overwhelmed me. --Ps. lv. 5.

Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them. --Shak.

Gaza yet stands; but all her sons are fallen,
All in a moment overwhelmed and fallen. --Milton.

2. To project or impend over threateningly.

His louering brows o'erwhelming his fair sight.
--Shak.

3. To cause to surround, to cover. --Papin.

He called Helm's injuries "overwhelming." Helm, who commuted 250 miles to rural from the Oakland to rural Weaverville to visit his family on weekends, was trapped in his crushed car for 89 hours.
"The overwhelming view of the council was that this was a matter of deep conscience, conviction and religion" on the part of union members, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland said.
Members attending ANPA-TEC saw the difference and demonstrated an overwhelming preference for the Leaf." If an AP member newspaper does not want an AP Leaf Picture Desk, it may keep its present photo receiver or accept a two-minute receiver.
The persistence of the budget deficit is overwhelming evidence that the federal budget process is fundamentally flawed.
But the final resolution thanked the local Citizens Committees, which helped Solidarity to its overwhelming election victory, and said they should help prepare for free municipal elections, a Solidarity goal.
I could only feel an overwhelming, crushing disappointment.
Sri Lanka's ruling party won an overwhelming victory in local council elections, and President Premadasa said the results were a vote of confidence for his embattled government.
"Tonight, Connecticut voters across all ideological lines _ and an overwhelming margin of blue-collar voters _ gave a resounding endorsement of the Dukakis bid for the presidency," the campaign statement said.
By an even more overwhelming ratio of six to one, voters say they want to protect the environment even if it means they will have to pay higher prices.
Indeed, in a sense, the execution of this book, itself gives the lie to the author's central thesis: there is an overwhelming, verbose cloudiness in the central visionary passages which denies all the harmony.
Both Democratic and Republican leaders predict overwhelming ratification when the treaty reaches the Senate floor and say only 10 or 12 members of the 100-member Senate are likely to vote to reject it.
The society said a consultation it carried out with the accountancy profession's joint ethics committee two years ago concluded that the 'overwhelming majority' of those asked supported the position.
It is an overwhelming probability that the next government, at the instigation of the ANC, will take a tougher line than is at present the case on the related issues of anti-trust policy and the structures of corporate control.
Ms. Walker said the response was overwhelming, and this tomato flourished again in friendly gardens.
Juan Domingo Peron, who came to power in 1946 and was ousted by a military coup in 1955. The military banned the party and jailed or exiled many of its leaders until 1973, when Peron returned from Spain and was elected by an overwhelming margin.
A weekend Gallup poll indicated overwhelming public opposition to the pay raise.
Each remaining share stands to get more income than before as long as debt expenses aren't overwhelming.
Faced with overwhelming Soviet military supremacy, you will have become isolated in your own continent.
For instance, they simply flooded the airwaves with many new transmission sources and much new traffic, both phony and real, overwhelming American and British intelligence-processing capacities.
The decrees are expected to allow the government to bypass the lower house of parliament, which is faced with an overwhelming backlog of vital economic legislation.
Radical students in all three cities also protested a political merger in January, when President Roh Tae-woo's conservative party joined with two moderate opposition groups, giving Roh's ruling group an overwhelming parliamentary majority.
There is little need to emphasize the overwhelming requirement to confront the country's multiple deficit and debt problems.
The overwhelming majority of humane societies refuse to contribute dogs and cats for research.
Others rely on a special 'Solidarity Fund' set up by the Democratic League of Kosovo, which won an overwhelming majority in the recent unofficial elections.
Despite word from the White House budget office that the president's senior advisers would recommend a veto, and a similar assessment from the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, the chamber gave overwhelming approval to the plan.
Mulroney led his party to an overwhelming victory four years ago, taking 210 of the then 282 seats in Commons.
Investigators for a Senate panel reported that "overwhelming evidence exists" that Iraq subjected Kurdish villages to poison gas attacks last month to break an insurgency by the minority Kurds.
"It was a concept based on overwhelming force, of crushing opposition," writes Mr. Cray, approvingly.
It can be progressive, rising more than proportionately with income. Politicians often claim that the administrative problems of switching to an expenditure tax would be overwhelming.
'But we're not talking about throwing money at the problem.' Even if savings on the scale Mr Manuel envisages are obtainable, however, he admits that the pressures for increased spending are potentially overwhelming.

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