剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - overwhelming collapse

overwhelming
[UK]/ˌəʊ.və'wel.mɪŋ/ [US]/ˌoʊ.vɚ-/
adjective
A
* difficult to fight against
难以抵挡的；无法抗拒的

1. She felt an overwhelming urge/desire/need to tell someone about what had happened.
她感到有一种抑制不住的冲动／欲望／需要想告诉别人所发生的事情。

A
* very great or very large
巨大的，极大的

1. She said how much she appreciated the overwhelming generosity of the public in responding to the appeal.
她发言表达了她对公众为响应这个呼吁所表现出的极大慷慨的万分感激。

2. An overwhelming majority have voted in favour of the proposal.
绝大多数的人投票赞成该提议。

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - overwhelming collapse

overwhelming ★★★☆☆
1.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词极强烈的；势不可挡的；令人不知所措的 If something is overwhelming, it affects you very strongly, and you do not know how to deal with it.

  • The task won't feel so overwhelming if you break it down into small, easy-to-accomplish steps...

    如果将这个任务细分为简单易行的若干步骤来做，便不会感到如此无所适从。

  • She felt an overwhelming desire to have another child.

    她一心想再要一个孩子。

overwhelmingly

  • Women of his own middle class found him overwhelmingly attractive.

    同属中产阶级的女性觉得他的魅力令人难以抗拒。

  • ...the overwhelmingly strange medieval city of Fès.

    极为奇特的中世纪城市非斯

2.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词（数量）巨大的，压倒性的 You can use overwhelming to emphasize that an amount or quantity is much greater than other amounts or quantities.

【搭配模式】：usu ADJ n

【语用信息】：emphasis

  • The overwhelming majority of small businesses go broke within the first twenty-four months...

    绝大多数小企业在头两年内就破产了。

  • The party won an overwhelming victory in Burma's general elections last May...

    去年5月，该党在缅甸大选中获得了压倒性的胜利。

  • The vote was overwhelming — 283 in favour, and only twenty-nine against.

    投票的结果是压倒性的——283票支持，只有29票反对。

overwhelmingly

  • The House of Commons has overwhelmingly rejected calls to bring back the death penalty for murder...

    下议院以压倒性的多数驳回了对谋杀罪恢复死刑判决的呼吁。

  • Although things are changing the medical establishment is still overwhelmingly male.

    虽然世易时移，但医学界依然是男性的天下。

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - overwhelming collapse

overwhelming
over·whelm·ing / 7EuvE5welmiN; NAmE 7ouvEr5w- / adjective   very great or very strong; so powerful that you cannot resist it or decide how to react
   巨大的；压倒性的；无法抗拒的:
   The evidence against him was overwhelming.
   对他不利的证据无法抵赖。
   The overwhelming majority of those present were in favour of the plan.
   绝大多数与会者都赞同这个计划。
   an overwhelming sense of loss
   莫大的失落感
   She had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him the truth.
   她恨不得要告诉他实情。
   You may find it somewhat overwhelming at first.
   起初你可能觉得它有些无法抗拒。
• over·whelm·ing·ly adv.:
   They voted overwhelmingly against the proposal.
   他们以压倒多数票反对这项提案。

牛津搭配语词典 第2版 - overwhelming collapse

overwhelming adj.

• VERBS be, seem | become

• ADVERB completely, quite | almost The urge to look was almost ~. | a little, pretty (esp. AmE) All these new experiences were a little ~. | apparently, seemingly seemingly ~ obstacles

Overwhelming is used with these nouns: advantage, approval, bulk, consensus, defeat, desire, dominance, emotion, endorsement, evidence, favourite, fear, feeling, force, grief, guilt, importance, impression, influence, joy, longing, love, majority, margin, need, number, odds, percentage, popularity, presence, proportion, relief, sadness, sensation, sense, stench, success, superiority, support, temptation, tiredness, urge, victory, vote

牛津英语同义词学习词典 - overwhelming collapse

overwhelming adj.
⇨ uncontrollable

新牛津英语同义词词典 - overwhelming collapse

overwhelming

adjective
1 the overwhelming majority of legislators are men | an overwhelming number of players declared themselves unavailable for the competition
VERY LARGE , profuse, enormous, immense, inordinate, massive, huge, formidable, stupendous, prodigious, fantastic, staggering, shattering, devastating, sweeping; informal mind-boggling, mind-blowing.
-opposite(s): SMALL.

2 an overwhelming desire to laugh | we have overwhelming public support
VERY STRONG , forceful, profound, uncontrollable, irrepressible, irresistible, unbearable, overpowering, oppressive, unutterable, compelling, irrefutable.

词源记忆 - overwhelming collapse

overwhelming 巨大的，压倒性的
比喻用法。