| 词汇 | be snowed under |
| 释义 | be snowed underbe snowed under a) BUSY/HAVE A LOT TO DO informal to have more work than you can deal with 被…压得透不过气来，〔工作多得〕忙不过来，穷于应付 be snowed under with I found myself snowed under with work. 我发觉自己工作忙不过来。 b) if an area is snowed under, a lot of snow has fallen there so that people are not able to travel 〔地方〕被雪封住 Examples from the Corpus be snowed under• Don't expect any help from them -- they're snowed under at the moment.• He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications.• Since the hurricane, builders and roofers have been snowed under with work. → be snowed under at snow2(3) |
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