overwhelm是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. (感情上) 使受不了, 使不知所措; 征服, 制服，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, since attempts were being made to humiliate her, she wanted to hold her head even higher than usual, and to overwhelm them all with the beauty and taste of her toilette.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In France who, knowing me to have been a pris-oner in the Bastille, would touch me, except to overwhelm me with embraces, or carry me in triumph.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, then I'll keep him here all the summer, and will overwhelm him with civility," said Levin, kissing her hands.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I scarcely observed this; rage and hatred had at first deprived me of utterance, and I recovered only to overwhelm him with words expressive of furious detestation and contempt.
-- Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death.
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：
-- Yet she shuddered with a sense of nausea, a sort of seasickness that always threatened to overwhelm her mind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with mortification.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe it is impossible to express, to the life, what the ec-stasies and transports of the soul are, when it is so saved, as I may say, out of the very grave: and I do not wonder now at the custom, when a malefactor, who has the halter about his neck, is tied up, and just going to be turned off, and has a reprieve brought to him - I say, I do not wonder that they bring a surgeon with it, to let him blood that very moment they tell him of it, that the surprise may not drive the ani-mal spirits from the heart and overwhelm him.
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