swamp
要点沼沢地
意味
- 沼沢地,沼地,湿地
- 《しばしば受動態で》(困難なことや仕事などが)…に押し寄せる,を圧倒する
- …を水浸しにする;〈船など〉を沈没させる
- 圧倒される,窮地に陥る
- 〈船〉が沈没する,浸水する
例文
Twelve percent of Russia's territory is covered in swamps.
ロシアの領土の12%は、湿地に覆われています。
We were swamped with visitors.
私たちは訪問客で忙殺された。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Early attestations (starting in 1624) are from North America, but the term was probably in local use in Britain earlier. The etymology is not entirely certain; it is probably a fusion of Middle English swam (“swamp, muddy pool, bog, marsh”, also “fungus, mushroom”) — from Old English swamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), from Proto-West Germanic *swamm, from Proto-Germanic *swambaz, *swammaz — and Middle English sompe (“marsh, morass”), from either Middle Dutch somp, sump (“marsh, swamp”) or Middle Low German sump (“marsh, swamp”) (from Old Saxon *sump (“swamp, marsh”)), both from Proto-West Germanic *sump, from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz.