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swamp n.沼泽；v.使陷入；淹没 swamp (v.) "overwhelm, sink (as if in a swamp)," 1772, from swamp (n.). Figurative sense is from 1818. Related: Swamped; swamping.swamp (n.) c.1500 (implied in swampwatyr "swamp-water"), of uncertain origin, perhaps [Barnhart] a dialectal survival from an Old English cognate of Old Norse svöppr "sponge, fungus," from Proto-Germanic *swampuz; but traditionally connected with Middle English sompe "morass, swamp," which probably is from Middle Dutch somp or Middle Low German sump "swamp" (see sump). All of these likely are ultimately related to each other, from PIE *swombho- "spongy; mushroom," via the notion of "spongy ground."[B]y swamps then in general is to be understood any low grounds subject to inundations, distinguished from marshes, in having a large growth of timber, and much underwood, canes, reeds, wythes, vines, briers, and such like, so matted together, that they are in a great measure impenetrable to man or beast .... [Bernard Romans, "A Concise History of East and West Florida," 1775] More popular in U.S. (swamp (n.) by itself is first attested 1624 in Capt. John Smith's description of Virginia). Swamp-oak is from 1680s, American English. Swamp Yankee "rural, rustic New Englander" is attested from 1941. Thornton's "American Glossary" (1912) has swamp-angel "dweller in a swamp," swamp-law "might makes right." 【记】swim + 音：坡→能游泳的山坡，是在沼泽里游；swim + 音：扑→正在swim 游泳，突然扑的地一声陷入沼泽

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[swɔmp] 【英】 n. 沼泽(land which is always full of water);v. 使陷入(cause to have a large amount of problems to deal with) n. 沼泽; 困境; v 使陷入 = overwhelm【记】s死, wa = water, mp: 死在water里面－沼泽

单词	swamp
音标	[swɔmp]
解释	n.沼泽；v.使陷入；淹没
红宝书	【英】 n. 沼泽(land which is always full of water);v. 使陷入(cause to have a large amount of problems to deal with)
字源	swamp (v.) "overwhelm, sink (as if in a swamp)," 1772, from swamp (n.). Figurative sense is from 1818. Related: Swamped; swamping. swamp (n.) c.1500 (implied in swampwatyr "swamp-water"), of uncertain origin, perhaps [Barnhart] a dialectal survival from an Old English cognate of Old Norse svöppr "sponge, fungus," from Proto-Germanic swampuz; but traditionally connected with Middle English sompe "morass, swamp," which probably is from Middle Dutch somp or Middle Low German sump "swamp" (see sump). All of these likely are ultimately related to each other, from PIE swombho- "spongy; mushroom," via the notion of "spongy ground." [B]y swamps then in general is to be understood any low grounds subject to inundations, distinguished from marshes, in having a large growth of timber, and much underwood, canes, reeds, wythes, vines, briers, and such like, so matted together, that they are in a great measure impenetrable to man or beast .... [Bernard Romans, "A Concise History of East and West Florida," 1775] More popular in U.S. (swamp (n.) by itself is first attested 1624 in Capt. John Smith's description of Virginia). Swamp-oak is from 1680s, American English. Swamp Yankee "rural, rustic New Englander" is attested from 1941. Thornton's "American Glossary" (1912) has swamp-angel "dweller in a swamp," swamp-law "might makes right."
不择手段背单词	n. 沼泽; 困境; v 使陷入 = overwhelm 【记】s死, wa = water, mp: 死在water里面－沼泽
趣味全助记	【记】swim + 音：坡→能游泳的山坡，是在沼泽里游；swim + 音：扑→正在swim 游泳，突然扑的地一声陷入沼泽

Swamp Middle N Large English Low Attested Swɔmp