knee-deep

• 1. 

  ADJ Something that is knee-deep is as high as your knees. 齐膝深的

  例：

  The water was only knee-deep.

  水只有齐膝深。

• 2. 

  ADJ If a person or a place is knee-deep in something such as water, the level of the water comes up to a person's knees. 没膝的

  例：

  They spent much of their time knee-deep in mud.

  他们在齐膝深的泥地里费了很长时间。

• 3. 

  ADJ If you say that you are knee-deep in something, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of it to deal with, and that it is taking up a lot of your time and attention. 缠人的 [非正式] [v-link ADJ 'in' n]

  例：

  The promised money won't help those students already knee-deep in debt.

  许诺的钱财帮不了那些已经债务缠身的学生们。

  例：

  He was knee-deep in other people's problems.

  他深深地陷入了其他人的问题当中。