U.S. Cuts UNESCO Funding After Palestine Vote
Despite American opposition, U.N. votes overwhelmingly to give Palestinians full membership in the cultural agency.
overwhelm[o・ver・whelm]
- レベル：大学入試程度
- 発音記号[òuvərhwélm | -wélm]
[動](他)
1 ［III[名]（[副]）］〈人を〉（精神的に）押しつぶす；((受身))〈人が〉（激しい感情で）圧倒される((by, with ...))
He was overwhelmed by ［with］ grief. ［＝Grief overwhelmed him. ］
ひどく悲しんでいた.
ひどく悲しんでいた.
2 ((しばしば受身))〈人を〉（対応できないほどの物・事で）どぎまぎさせる, 困惑させる；〈人に〉（…を）たくさん与える((with ...))
overwhelm a person with questions
人を質問攻めにする
人を質問攻めにする
The child was overwhelmed with gifts.
子供はどっさり贈り物をもらった.
子供はどっさり贈り物をもらった.
3 …を圧倒［制圧］する, やっつける, …を壊滅させる, 打ち滅ぼす.
4 ((文))〈水が〉…をおおう, 埋没させる；いっぱいに満たす.overwhelming[o・ver・whelm・ing]
- レベル：大学入試程度
- 発音記号[òuvərhwélmiŋ | -wélm-]
[形]圧倒的な；抗しがたい
win by an overwhelming majority
圧倒的多数で勝つ.
圧倒的多数で勝つ.
o・ver・whelm・ing・ly
[副]
o・ver・whelm・ing・ness
[名]
Taiwan Routs Canadian Little League Series
New York Times
By AP Shao-Fei Huang drove in six runs and Hsun Hao Shih hit two long home runs to lead Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to a 23-0 victory over Vancouver at the Little ...
エスノポリティクスを英語に訳すと ethnopolitics
New York Times
By AP Shao-Fei Huang drove in six runs and Hsun Hao Shih hit two long home runs to lead Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to a 23-0 victory over Vancouver at the Little ...
エスノポリティクスを英語に訳すと ethnopolitics
rout
tr.v., rout·ed, rout·ing, routs.
- To put to disorderly flight or retreat: "the flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun" (Virginia Woolf).
- To defeat overwhelmingly. See synonyms at defeat.
[Middle English route, from Old French, troop, defeat, from Vulgar Latin *rupta, from feminine of Latin ruptus, past participle of rumpere, to break.]
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