• 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，現在分詞swamping，第三人稱單數swamps，名詞swampiness，形容詞swampy）

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."

1. In the swamp the army was beset by mosquitoes.

在沼澤地,該軍受到蚊子的困擾.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

2. The fort flanked on a swamp.

堡壘側面靠著沼澤地.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. This is a crocodile - infested swamp.

這是一片鱷魚聚居的沼澤地.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The soldiers became bogged in the swamp.

士兵們陷在沼澤中.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. The swamp teems with mosquitoes.

這片沼澤地蚊子多極了.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》