海滩上有些地方在涨潮时完全淹没在水中。Some stretches of beach are completely underwater at high tide.上班时，他淹没在枯燥乏味的会海中。At work, he was chained to a system of boring meetings.洞口大半都淹没在湖里。Most of the mouth of the cave was submerged in the lake...
我们只得绕道避开被洪水淹没的田野。We had to make a detour around the flooded fields.他指出, 铁板一块的观念是注定要被历史的潮流所淹没的.The monolith, he suggested, was doomed by the tides of history.这时它缓缓地在树干和矮树间漂浮着,又浮到被洪水淹没的陆地上.Slowly now it floated among logs ...