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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary
- 泛滥 [fànlàn]
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1.
verb
overflow
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1.
verb
overflow
Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary
Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary
- 泛滥 [fànlàn]
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动
江河湖泊的水漫出堤岸,四处奔流
- 黄河泛滥成灾
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2.
动
比喻有害的事物无限制地扩散
- 吃喝风泛滥
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1.
动
江河湖泊的水漫出堤岸,四处奔流
Examples
- 河水泛滥。
- The river was flooding. or The river overflowed its banks. → 泛滥
- 不能让错误思想自由泛滥。
- Under no circumstances should erroneous ideas be allowed to spread unchecked. → 泛滥
- 江水决堤，泛滥成灾。
- The river overflowed its banks and caused serious flooding. → 泛滥成灾
- 表格之多，闹得泛滥成灾。
- There is such a flood of statistical forms that they become a scourge. → 泛滥成灾
- 任其泛滥
- let it (e.g. a flood, etc.) spread unchecked → 任
- 这个社会的信仰泛滥。 → 信仰
- 我们要修好这大坝，预防河水泛滥。 → 泛滥
- 这种消极思想在年轻人中泛滥。 → 泛滥
- 一九九八年这儿河水泛滥成灾。 → 泛滥成灾
- 卷子如雪片般飞落，简直泛滥成灾。 → 泛滥成灾
Collocations
- 泛滥开来
- spread
- 迅速泛滥
- spread quickly
- 开始泛滥
- begin to spread
- 黄毒泛滥
- explosion of pornography
- 泛滥成灾
- to be swamped with
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