overwhelming是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 势不可挡的， 压倒的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt an overwhelming compassion.
-- All his irritation was gone, and he felt eh bien, oui, je ne le nie pas he felt an overwhelming pity.
-- His eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, and now he was seized by an overwhelming sensation as he stared at the painted walls.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Gentle, charming, overwhelming Sally.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed an overwhelming calamity.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was tortured with desire to see him again, a nostalgia, a necessity to see him again, to make sure it was not all a mistake, that she was not deluding herself, that she really felt this strange and overwhelming sensation on his account, this knowledge of him in her essence, this powerful apprehension of him.
-- She felt an overwhelming tenderness for him, and a dark, under-stirring of jealous hatred, that he should lie so perfect and immune, in an other-world, whilst she was tormented with violent wakefulness, cast out in the outer darkness.
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