swamp

英 [sw?mp] 美[swɑmp]

n. 沼澤；濕地
vt. 使陷于沼澤；使沉沒；使陷入困境
vi. 下沉；陷入沼澤；陷入困境；不知所措（過去式swamped，過去分詞swamped，現(xiàn)在分詞swamping，第三人稱單數(shù)swamps，名詞swampiness，形容詞swampy）

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復數(shù):?swamps;第三人稱單數(shù):?swamps;過去式:?swamped;過去分詞:?swamped;現(xiàn)在分詞:?swamping;形容詞:?swampy;

1. 諧音“死亡泊”-----死亡的沼泊、沼澤泊。
2. 沼澤是一個很恐怖的地方，很容易沉入淤泥里死掉。

swamp 沼澤，淹沒，使疲于應付

混合詞，來自中古英語 swam, 沼澤，和中古英語 sompe, 沼澤，最終都來自 Proto-Germanic*sumpaz,沼澤，泥沼，詞源同 sump.引申比喻義陷入沼澤，淹沒，疲于應付等。

swamp (v.): "overwhelm, sink (as if in a swamp)," 1772, from swamp (n.). Figurative sense is from 1818. Related: Swamped; swamping.
swamp (n.): c. 1500 (implied in swampwatyr "swamp-water"), of uncertain origin, perhaps [Barnhart] a dialectal survival from an Old English cognate of Old Norse sv?ppr "sponge, fungus," from Proto-Germanic *swampuz; but traditionally connected with Middle English sompe "morass, swamp," which probably is from Middle Dutch somp or Middle Low German sump "swamp" (see sump). All of these likely are ultimately related to each other, from PIE *swombho- "spongy; mushroom," via the notion of "spongy ground."
[B]y swamps then in general is to be understood any low grounds subject to inundations, distinguished from marshes, in having a large growth of timber, and much underwood, canes, reeds, wythes, vines, briers, and such like, so matted together, that they are in a great measure impenetrable to man or beast .... [Bernard Romans, "A Concise History of East and West Florida," 1775]
More popular in U.S. (swamp (n.) by itself is first attested 1624 in Capt. John Smith's description of Virginia). Swamp-oak is from 1680s, American English. Swamp Yankee "rural, rustic New Englander" is attested from 1941. Thornton's "American Glossary" (1912) has swamp-angel "dweller in a swamp," swamp-law "might makes right."