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Submerge Water Word   [V N 英 Səb'mɜːdʒ] 美 Səb'mɜːrdʒ

英语单词 submerge
英美音标 英 [səb'mɜːdʒ] 美 [səb'mɜːrdʒ]
中文释义 vt.使浸没;潜入水中;覆盖
vi.浸没
英语例句 (1) I watched the submarine submerge.
中文例句 (1) 我望着潜艇潜入水中。
vocabulary简明 When you go swimming, you submerge your body in water. If your head is out of the water, it is not submerged — it's just wet.
vocabulary扩展 To really soak a washcloth, you should submerge it in a basin of water. It is said that the word submerge was invented by William Shakespeare. We don't know that for sure, but we know that its appearance in the play Antony and Cleopatra is the first recorded time the word was written, and therefore read, by anyone.
柯林斯解释
1
[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](使)浸没;(使)淹没;(使)潜入水中;(使)没入水中 If something submerges or if you submerge it, it goes below the surface of some water or another liquid.
  [V]
  [V n]
  • Hippos are unable to submerge in the few remaining water holes...

    在仅剩的几个水坑里,河马根本无法没入水中。

  • The river burst its banks, submerging an entire village.

    河水决堤,淹没了整个村庄。

2
[VERB 动词]沉浸;陷入;埋头于 If you submerge yourself in an activity, you give all your attention to it and do not think about anything else.
  [V pron-refl in n]
  • He submerges himself in the world of his imagination.

    他沉浸在自己想象的世界中。

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