2019-08-03 overwhelming

英英释义：very large or greater, more important etc than any other

有“难以抗拒的、令人不知所措的”的意思，也有“巨大的、压倒性的”的意思。我们今天来学第二个意思。

sentence

1. There is overwhelming evidence that smoking damages your health.

2. The garbage/waste sorting proposal has been given overwhelming support. 

3. An overwhelming majority have voted in favor of the garbage/waste sorting proposal.

4. Those who think global warming is not man-made are, inevitably, opposed to states setting long-range targets to decarbonise the economy. Even some who accept the overwhelming scientific consensus have their doubts. 

5. It looks as if the party is about to gamble again, on Boris Johnson. The former foreign secretary is the overwhelming favourite among party members, who elect the leader.（这里的意思是 Boris Johnson 的支持率远远超过其他人） 

6. Ms Cep paints a portrait of a hermetic society still riven by prejudice, with its revival tents and sharecroppers. Then she pieces together Lee’s struggle not only with Maxwell’s tale but with the legacy of her overwhelming success.（这里的 overwhelming 就相当于 great）

practice

1. 有大量证据表明刻意练习是掌握各种技能的必要条件。 

Overwhelming evidence has shown that practice with purpose is the premise for mastering skills.

参考翻译：There is overwhelming evidence that deliberate practice is essential to mastery of skills.)