于是，巴黎最富有历史意义的建筑艺术便天天在消失，历史古迹日益减少，仿佛眼睁睁看这些古迹淹在房舍的海洋中，渐渐被吞没了。 Thus the historical significance of its architecture is being effaced every day. Monuments are becoming rarer and rarer,and one seems to see them gradually engulfed, by the flood of houses.
他们担心淹死。 They are afraid of drowning.
洪水退去，留下的泥浆淹没了这个乡村。 The countryside was engulfed in a sea of mud left by the receding flood-water.
主甲板被淹没了；雨季让整个地方都被水淹没；被水淹了的浴室；被淹没的农田；水都溢出来了的浴缸。 the main deck was afloat (or awash); the monsoon left the whole place awash; a flooded bathroom; inundated farmlands; an overflowing tub.
船触焦失事了，有好几个人淹死了，只有4名水手奋力挣脱，死里逃生。 The ship was wrecked on a reef; several were drowned; but four sailors managed to escape with the skin of their teeth.
甚至中学生都会对可能产生的结果列举一二：海洋将会变暖；冰川将会融化，引起海平面上升，海水将会淹没许多地势较低一带海岸附近的民居。 Even high school students can reel off some projected outcomes: the oceans will warm, and glaciers will melt, causing sea 1evels to rise and salt water to inundate settlements along many low-lying coasts.
洪水泛滥，淹没了德文郡的广大地区。 Widespread flooding is affecting large areas of Devon.
在所有的山峰中唯有帕尔纳索斯没有被洪水的浪滔所淹没，普罗米修斯的独生子丢卡利翁和他的妻子皮拉——厄庇墨透斯的女儿——就躲到这个山峰上去。 Parnassus alone, of the mountains, overtopped the waves, and there Deucalion, son the Prometheus, and his wife Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, found refuge - he a just man and she a faithful worshiper of the gods.
是追求人自身价值的不断完善与提升，还是人在科技进步的大潮中被淹没，人自身的“贬值”？ Is it to encourage us to cultivate and nurture values dear to our hearts, or to allow us to lose our feeling of self-worth in the relentless tide of technological progress?
虽然合唱的歌词被歌声所淹没，但是通过正统仪式训练的曲调仍然悠扬而又清晰。 when the measured speech of the chorus passes over into song the tones are, remotely but unmistakably, those taught by the orthodox liturgy.
水库淹没界线测量 reservoir inundation line survey
河水流过或水库淹没的地理上的区域。 the geographical area draining into a river or reservoir.
当这女孩差点淹死时，我们用人工把它救活了。 When the girl nearly drowned, we brought her to by artificial respiration.
我们都以为他淹死了，但经过一小时的人工呼吸，他苏醒过来了。 We all thought he was drowned, but after an hour's artificial respiration he came to life.
那女孩差点淹死了。 The girl came within an ace of being drowned.
孩子差一点儿淹死了。 The child came within an ace of being drowned.
布满了淹没在水中的暗礁、沙丘或者浅滩。 full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
不要大声嚷嚷，不要在吧台面上敲击钱币，不要叭叭地弹手指，不要像快淹死的人那样挥动手臂，不要绷着脸，不要唉声叹气，不要翻动眼珠。 Do not call out tap coins on the counter, snap your finger or wave like a drowning swimmer. Do not scowl or sigh or roll your eyes.
酒神淹死的人比海神多；美酒比海水更有害。 Wine is more harmful than seawater.
基里巴斯电台报道说，塔拉瓦岛多处遭遇洪水，连接各小岛的堤道也被海水淹没。 Radio Kiribati reported that many parts of Tarawa were flooded and causeways linking the islets were covered with seawater.
该地区其后遭浅海淹没，期间沉积物不断积聚，元朗和马鞍山的石炭纪大理岩，便是该时期的产物。 The region was subsequently inundated by a shallow sea. Sediments laid down during this time are represented by the Carboniferous marble of Yuen Long and Ma On Shan.
他们努力进入水淹的矿井，救出了同志们。 They got through into the flooded mine shaft, and rescued the comrades.
许多人在那次船遇难时淹死了。 Many people drowned in that shipwreck.
当然，人们还是有一些疑问。如果这些新脸孔的意见被党视为越界，他们的声音会不会被淹没？ But questions still abound: Would these new voices be subsumed if they were judged to have crossed the line?
淹没了多岩石的海岸的海浪 Waves overwhelming the rocky shoreline.
另一方面，在研究公元前4000年以来的最早期文化时，无疑要考虑到环境不断转变，其间海平面由低于目前水平100米不断上升，淹没沿岸的广阔平原，今日的海岸线和环境生态基本上也在该段期间形成。在这地区生活的人必须适应环境，否则便会遭受淘汰。 There is little dispute, on the other hand, that these earliest periods, from the close of the fourth millennium BC, must be seen within the framework of a changing environment in which sea levels rose from depths of 100 metres below the present - inexorably submerging vast tracts of coastal plain and establishing a basically modern shoreline and ecology to which human groups had to adapt if they were not to perish.
洗涤糟里的水溢了出来，把厨房都淹了。 The sink overflowed and swamped the kitchen with water.
海水很快就把下沉的船淹没了。 The sea soon closed over the sinking ship.
那船正在下沉，水渐渐淹没了船顶。 The vessel was sinking and the waters closed over it gradually.