'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。

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”。

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

我的问题是，我现在忙得不可开交。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

Ruby says she's snowed under with work.

鲁比说她被工作压得喘不过气来。

Our dialogue between Ruby and Ian begins by Ruby complaining that she is snowed under with work.

我们 Ruby 和 Ian 之间的对话开始于 Ruby 抱怨她被工作压得喘不过气来。

" To be snowed under" means to have too much work to do; to be very busy.

“to be snowed under”意思是有太多的工作要做；很忙。

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。

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。”

The distance each way was barely three miles, but the old bay's pace was slow, and even with firm snow under the runners we were nearly an hour on the way.

每条路的距离只有三英里，但老海湾的速度很慢，即使滑道下有厚厚的积雪，我们也走了将近一个小时。

So let's take a look at some snow idioms. 'To be snowed under' means to have a lot of work to do, like when you have a lot of deadlines to meet all at the same time.

让我们来看看一些有关雪的习语。“被雪覆盖”是指有很多工作要做，比如同一时间你有多个亟需完成的任务。

As for Grant, he was—as he had known he would be—snowed under with information. By Tuesday noon Tisdall had been seen in almost every corner of England and Wales, and by teatime was beginning to be seen in Scotland.

至于格兰特，正如他所知道的那样，他被信息淹没了。到星期二中午，几乎英格兰和威尔士的每一个角落都可以看到提斯达尔，到了下午茶时间，苏格兰也开始出现了。