| 释义 |
Examples:a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas)—warp (fertilize land by flooding)—flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc)—only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc)—flood of good fortune fills the heavens (idiom); a lucky sign—the theory that geological change is caused by catastrophic events such as the Biblical flood—flood causes disaster (idiom); fig. swamped with work—ice-jam flood (arising when river downstream freezes more than upstream)—provide a stable crop, regardless of drought or flood—widespread flooding [idiom.]—natural and man-made disasters (idiom); natural calamities (flood, drought, earthquake) added human calamity (fire, famine, war, Microsoft software)—catastrophism (theory that geological changes are brought about by catastrophes such as the biblical flood)— |