| 词源 |
overwhelm. Overwhelm means essentially the same thing as whelm, “to be completely overcome by something,” but over- whelm is a more emphatic term. Whelm has its roots in the Mid- dle English whelven, meaning to capsize or turn a vessel upside down. The English whelm was first recorded in the 13th century and soon took on the sense of turning a vessel upside down “so as to cover it” with water, which led to its modern meaning. |