flood: [OE] Flood goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *flōthuz, which also produced German flut, Dutch vloed, and Swedish flod ‘flood’. It was derived ultimately from Indo- European *plō-, a variant of *pleu- ‘flow, float’ which also produced English fleet, float, fly, fledge, and fowl. => fleet, float, fly, fowl
flood (n.)
Old English flōd "a flowing of water, tide, an overflowing of land by water, a deluge, Noah's Flood; mass of water, river, sea, wave," from Proto-Germanic *floduz "flowing water, deluge" (cognates: Old Frisian flod, Old Norse floð, Middle Dutch vloet, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Gothic flodus), from the source of Old English flowan, from PIE verbal root *pleu- "to flow, float, swim" (see pluvial). In early modern English often floud. Figurative use, "a great quantity, a sudden abundance," by mid-14c.
flood (v.)
1660s, "to overflow" (transitive), from flood (n.). Intransitive sense "to rise in a flood" is from 1755. Related: Flooded; flooding.
实用例句
1. Infectious diseases are spreading among many of the flood victims.
传染病正在遭受洪灾的很多灾民中蔓延。来自柯林斯例句
2. The flood of cars has now slowed to a trickle.
汹涌的车流现在已经变得稀稀拉拉。来自柯林斯例句
3. The sight of him entering a room could flood her with desire.
见到他进入房间会让她心中欲望澎湃。来自柯林斯例句
4. Flood waters washed away one of the main bridges in Pusan.
洪水冲垮了釜山的一座主要桥梁。来自柯林斯例句
5. He received a flood of letters from irate constituents.
