del·uge /ˈdɛlˌjuʤ, ˌjuʒ; &dɪvɪdɛ;dəˈluʤ, ˈdeˌluʤ/
 大洪水,氾濫(vt.)使氾濫


 Del·uge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deluged p. pr. & vb. n. Deluging.]
 1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
    The deluged earth would useless grow.   --Blackmore.
 2. To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.
 At length corruption, like a general flood . . .
 Shall deluge all.   --Pope.

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 Del·uge n.
 1. A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (--Gen. vii.).
 2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. “The deluge of summer.”
 A fiery deluge fed
 With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.   --Milton.
    As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge.   --F. Harrison.
 After me the deluge.
 (Aprés moi le déluge.)   --Madame de Pompadour.


 deluge
      n 1: an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a
           torrent of abuse" [syn: flood, inundation, torrent]
      2: a heavy rain [syn: downpour, cloudburst, waterspout, torrent,
          pelter, soaker]
      3: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto
         normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual
         inundations" [syn: flood, inundation, alluvion]
      v 1: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the
           basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images
           flooded his mind" [syn: flood, inundate, swamp]
      2: charge someone with too many tasks [syn: overwhelm, {flood
         out]
      3: fill or cover completely, usually with water [syn: inundate,
          submerge]


 Deluge
    the name given to Noah's flood, the history of which is recorded
    in Gen. 7 and 8.

      It began in the year 2516 B.C., and continued twelve lunar
    months and ten days, or exactly one solar year.

      The cause of this judgment was the corruption and violence
    that filled the earth in the ninth generation from Adam. God in
    righteous indignation determined to purge the earth of the
    ungodly race. Amid a world of crime and guilt there was one
    household that continued faithful and true to God, the household
    of Noah. "Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations."

      At the command of God, Noah made an ark 300 cubits long, 50
    broad, and 30 high. He slowly proceeded with this work during a
    period of one hundred and twenty years (Gen. 6:3). At length the
    purpose of God began to be carried into effect. The following
    table exhibits the order of events as they occurred:

      In the six hundredth year of his life Noah is commanded by God
    to enter the ark, taking with him his wife, and his three sons
    with their wives (Gen. 7:1-10).

      The rain begins on the seventeenth day of the second month
    (Gen. 7:11-17).

      The rain ceases, the waters prevail, fifteen cubits upward
    (Gen. 7:18-24).

      The ark grounds on one of the mountains of Ararat on the
    seventeenth day of the seventh month, or one hundred and fifty
    days after the Deluge began (Gen. 8:1-4).

      Tops of the mountains visible on the first day of the tenth
    month (Gen. 8:5).

      Raven and dove sent out forty days after this (Gen. 8:6-9).

      Dove again sent out seven days afterwards; and in the evening
    she returns with an olive leaf in her mouth (Gen. 8:10, 11).

      Dove sent out the third time after an interval of other seven
    days, and returns no more (Gen. 8:12).

      The ground becomes dry on the first day of the first month of
    the new year (Gen. 8:13).

      Noah leaves the ark on the twenty-seventh day of the second
    month (Gen. 8:14-19).

      The historical truth of the narrative of the Flood is
    established by the references made to it by our Lord (Matt.
    24:37; comp. Luke 17:26). Peter speaks of it also (1 Pet. 3:20;
    2 Pet. 2:5). In Isa. 54:9 the Flood is referred to as "the
    waters of Noah." The Biblical narrative clearly shows that so
    far as the human race was concerned the Deluge was universal;
    that it swept away all men living except Noah and his family,
    who were preserved in the ark; and that the present human race
    is descended from those who were thus preserved.

      Traditions of the Deluge are found among all the great
    divisions of the human family; and these traditions, taken as a
    whole, wonderfully agree with the Biblical narrative, and agree
    with it in such a way as to lead to the conclusion that the
    Biblical is the authentic narrative, of which all these
    traditions are more or less corrupted versions. The most
    remarkable of these traditions is that recorded on tablets
    prepared by order of Assur-bani-pal, the king of Assyria. These
    were, however, copies of older records which belonged to
    somewhere about B.C. 2000, and which formed part of the priestly
    library at Erech (q.v.), "the ineradicable remembrance of a real
    and terrible event." (See NOAH; CHALDEA.)