'To be snowed under' by work.

被工作“压得喘不过气来”。

To be snowed under, again, idiomatic.

Be snowed under 也是习语。

You can be snowed under with work, snowed under with emails, snowed under with requests to do something, and so on.

你可能被工作压得喘不过气来，被电子邮件压得喘不过气来，被要求做某事压得喘不过气来，等等。

They're no longer completely snowed under.

他们不再完全被冰雪覆盖了。

And he's constantly snowed under with work.

而且他总是被工作压得喘不过气。

My problem is I'm snowed under at the moment.

我的问题是，我现在忙得不可开交。

There's another expression with a similar meaning 'to be snowed under'.

还有一个意思类似的表达“被压得喘不过气来”。

He shuffles papers, crunches numbers, and is constantly snowed under with work.

他整理文件，处理数字，总是被工作压得喘不过气。

Here we see him taking on mother nature and getting completely snowed under.

现在我们看到他直面大自然的挑战，并完全被大雪覆盖了。

Now if you take on too much work, you might get snowed under.

如果你承担了太多的工作，你可能会被压得喘不过气来。

If you're snowed under, you have more things to do than you can manage.

如果你工作多得忙不过来，就是说你要做的事情比你能应对的要多。

If they have their exams, they have to study a lot. So they might be snowed under.

如果他们有考试，他们必须大量学习。所以他们可能会被学习压得喘不过气来。

Vicki would love to work on this project. The problem is she's snowed under at the moment.

薇姬很愿意参与这个项目。问题是她现在忙得不可开交。

And if we're snowed under, we might 'hand a project over' to someone else — give it away.

如果我们忙得不可开交，我们可能会把一个项目移交给别人——把它给别人。

He just wants to get some snow under his feet and feel more confident.

他只是想在脚下踩点雪，感觉更自信。

There was crisp, dry snow under his feet and more snow lying on the branches of the trees.

他脚下是松脆的干雪，树枝上的雪更多。

So to be snowed under, to have a lot of things on top of you work to do that you haven't got time to do something.

to be snowed under，有很多事情要做，而你没有时间去做。

Yes. Hold the line, please... Hello, I'm afraid Mr. White is completely snowed under at present. He shouldn't be free until 11 o'clock. Can I take a message?

好的，请稍等… … 喂，怀特先生现在根本走不开，直到11点才有空。需要我转告一下吗?

You could instead say " I'm so sorry. I'm snowed under at work at the moment. So I really don't have time to go for a drink."

你可以说；“我很抱歉。我现在工作忙得不可开交。所以我真的没有时间去喝一杯。”

Ruby says she's snowed under with work.

鲁比说她被工作压得喘不过气来。