| 释义 |
awash, advb. phr. (pred. a.)|əˈwɒʃ|
Also 9 a-wash
[a prep.1 + wash.]
1. On a level or flush with the surface of the water, so that it just washes over.
1833Penny Cycl. I. 507/1 An anchor is..‘a-wash,’ when the stock is hove up to the surface of the water. 1868W. Collins Moonst. i. xix. (1876) 144 The South spit was just awash with the flowing tide.
2. a. Washing about, at the mercy of the waves.
1870Reade Put Yourself III. 274 The rising water set everything awash. 1876Morris Sigurd iv. 351 Their unmanned oars awash In the sandy waves of the shallows.
b. fig. Esp. const. with: full of or abounding in; overflowing or rife with.
1912J. London Son of Sun ii. 58 If I had the backbone to go and get it I could drink my back teeth awash until I died. 1950W. Stevens Auroras of Autumn 193 You see the earth again..you hear its tragic drone Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings, Like watery words awash. 1954A. Seton Katherine xxi. 356 The Abbey was awash with beauty of sound, enclosed by the beauty of stone. 1968E. Bowen Eva Trout (1969) ii. iii. 237 The Outer Circle swept Eva round Regent's Park, awash in the gold of early evening, running with children. 1978P. Roth Professor of Desire 78 In that strangely youthful face all there is to speak of sorrow are the eyes, soft, brown, and awash with feeling even while his crisp accent refuses to betray the faintest hint of grief. 1985Times 5 June 12/6 Perhaps Britain was awash with voters who wanted Wilson on a free home trial. |