Deluge (destruction) & Inundation (area) *** (大量 少許 浪費 軍事 單字大集合)

deluge



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(大寫)《聖經》中的大洪水 [the S]



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–noun 

1. a great flood of water; inundation (淹沒); flood. 

2. a drenching rain; downpour.  

3. anything that overwhelms like a flood:



a deluge of [mail].  



4. the Deluge. flood (def. 3).  



Flood, flash flood, deluge, freshet, inundation refer to the overflowing of normally dry areas, often after heavy rains. 



Flood is usually applied to the overflow of a great body of water, as, for example, a river, although it may refer to any water that overflows an area: a flood along the [river]; a flood in a [basement]. 



A flash flood is one that comes so suddenly that no preparation can be made against it; it is usually destructive, but begins almost at once to subside: a flash flood caused by a [downpour]. 



Deluge suggests a great downpouring of water, sometimes with destruction: The rain came down in a deluge. 



Freshet suggests a small, quick overflow such as that caused by heavy rains: a freshet in an abandoned watercourse. 

Inundation, a literary word, suggests the covering of a great area of land by water: 



the [inundation] of thousands of [acres].



–verb (used with object) 

5. to flood; inundate. 

6. to overrun; overwhelm: 



She was deluged with congratulatory [letters].  



—Synonyms 

1. See flood. 3. cataclysm (地殼之劇烈變動), catastrophe.





　

As the indie world gears up for the Toronto Film Festival, the specialty box office is down dramatically compared to other years, while the rest of the B.O. prospers. 



Studio specialty arms are [battening] down the hatches 



and releasing fewer titles, 

in dramatic contrast [to] last year's deluge.









Beleaguer

Meager



1. 大量

exorbitant 

sumptuous

though that actually seems like a reasonable [outlay] for a film that we can reasonably expect to be sumptuously [detailed] and, very likely, an earner in the long run. No, it’s not the sort of movie Universal makes now (especially after Green Zone) but the pass is [notable].

Francoise Sagan's bittersweet novel Bonjour Tristesse is given a [sumptuous] Riviera-filmed screen treatment. David Niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged libertine-in-the-making Jean Seberg.

The film also makes wonderful use of its French Riviera locations and designer gowns, resulting [in] a sumptuous visual feast.

exuberant

extortion 

ransom 

extoll

exhort 

admonish & encourage!!!

expostulate

Detest



1.5 人馬

Proletarian



1.6 大人物

1.65 君王

1.66 宗教

1.7 毀滅 Dissipate





cornucopia

Magnolia is nothing else if not a cornucopia of [stories] about the need to make peace with parents.

copious 

plethora 

She's had a plethora of telephone [calls] today. 

myriad

We could see [a] myriad of stars

We could see myriad[s] of them. 

the myriad [mind] of Shakespear

As director, Affleck relishes the close-quarters volatility of Lehane's Balkanized Boston, split along [myriad] fracture lines [of] class, loyalty, address, and ethnicity. 

Have myriad LA mums not spread the word as to exactly where Hollywood's latest heart-throb can be [readily] observed putting in his [pliés]? He seems not really to have [considered] the prospect.

galore

has visual splendor [galore], but is a cold work lacking in the requisite tension and suspense. 

muckle

mickle

Why, it's neither muckling nor mickling, is it?





1.8 軍事

Pyrotechnic



2. 少許

modicum

a moderate or small amount

"I practise whenever I can," he says, without a modicum of embarrassment.



joust jostle jut jot jolt jilt 

jot 

tad streak fig slew shrew shrewd sliver wad

loll lull

mole moll mull droll



nudge

jostle

to push gently with elbow, to get someone's attention. 

He's [not] out to jostle our complacencies but [only] to give them a little [nudge] 



smithereens

Rachel narrowly escapes being [blown] to smithereens

sliver 

A sliver [of] sky was visible. 

to sliver a [log] into kindling.

sputter 

The [fire] sputtered [cinders] Garrulous



aught 

(anything) whatever

for [aught] I know

but I'm so nostalgic for the early [aughts]

nought

[nought] point 3

His efforts to reform the party came to [nought].

It was all for [naught]. (nothing, more frequent)

It's a big number with a lot of [noughts] in it. (zero)





2.1

The candidates will [joust] in a [television debate]. 

It's too bad jousting's gone out of style. 

The candidates [jostled] [each other] to win the election.



The [narrow strip] of land [juts out] into the bay.  



The [bus] [jolted] its passengers as it went down the rocky road.  

He [jolted] the [nail] [free] with a stone. 



The [news] was a [jolt] to me. 

We need the genuine [jolt] that comes about midway, to let us see what the movie is capable of. The rest is fear. 

Though it's no Knife in the Water, director Phillip Noyce's tense, [visceral] '80s thriller [injects] a much-needed claustrophobic [jolt] into 



2.2

[Jot down] his license number.  

I don't care [a jot].  

The world situation matters [not a jot or tittle] to him.  



Please shift your [chair] [a tad] to the right. 



I know only a few [streaks] about [geology].

I seem to be having a [lucky] [streak].

Lula, a slatternly woman with a racist [streak], encounters Clay, a mild-mannered black man, [on] a New York subway car.



The wall was [smeared] with [streaks] of [dirt]. [streek]

A dazzling [streak] [lit] up the sky.

There are [streaks] of [ore] in the mountains.



A whole [slew] of people. 



A [sliver] of sky was visible. 



Irina always has a sizable [wad] of [cash] in her pocket 

a wad of [paper] [tobacco]

He wadded [up] his cap and [stuck] it into his pocket. 

They [rammed] and [wadded] the [shot] into their muskets.



2.3

She was [lolling] on a [sofa], with nothing to do.

The [dog] is [lolling] out its tongue.



The motion of the train soon [lulled] me to [sleep].

This is just the [lull] before the [storm].



2.4

[Moles] stay [underground] most of the time.

The girl has a tiny [moles] on her [cheek].

Old men sat [along] the [mole] and fished.



A [female] (companion of a) [criminal] is a moll 



smidgen

a very small amount

I can't feel a smidgen of pride in them. 'Cause they ain't none of my doing.





3. 浪費

Dissipate

















Deluge