engulfing

英 [ɪnˈɡʌlfɪŋ]

美 [ɪnˈɡʌlfɪŋ]

v.  包围; 吞没; 淹没; 严重影响
engulf的现在分词

COCA.43887

柯林斯词典

• VERB （常指突然）吞没，吞噬
  If one thingengulfsanother, it completely covers or hides it, often in a sudden and unexpected way.
  1. A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats...
     山体滑坡掩埋了一栋公寓楼，造成一名7岁男孩丧生。
  2. The flat is engulfed in flames.
     那套公寓被火焰吞噬。
• VERB 使陷入（某种感觉或情绪）
  If a feeling or emotionengulfsyou, you are strongly affected by it.
  1. ...the pain that engulfed him...
     将他吞噬的苦痛
  2. He looked around his dark, cluttered office and was engulfed by a feeling of emptiness.
     他环顾自己昏暗杂乱的办公室，陷入一阵空虚之中。

双语例句

• Congressional probes of multiple scandals engulfing the Obama administration are continuing.
  国会对奥巴马政府的多个丑闻调查仍在继续。
• A credit crisis is engulfing the US and Europe, said Mr Fink, an Anderson alumnus and UCLA graduate.
  作为安德森商学院及加州大学洛杉矶分校毕业生的芬克表示：一场信贷危机正在席卷美国和欧洲。
• Professional services firms are planning to recruit several thousand staff in Greater China in stark contrast to the wave of redundancies engulfing the wider financial services sector.
  专业服务公司正计划在大中华区招聘数千名员工，与席卷全球金融服务业的裁员浪潮形成鲜明对照。
• Leading airlines in Europe and Asia reported heavy losses yesterday amid the deepening crisis engulfing the aviation sector.
  随着日渐深重的危机席卷航空业，欧洲和亚洲的主要航空公司昨日公布了巨额亏损。
• The technological revolution now engulfing the modern world has penetrated almost all aspects of daily life.
  科技革命支配整个现代社会，也渗入我们日常生活里几乎每一环节。
• Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world.
  向着这些崇高目标的进程一直受到席卷全球的冲突的威胁。
• Hurricanes do not keep engulfing New York.
  飓风不会一直肆虐纽约。
• Labour unrest engulfing the South African platinum industry spread yesterday, prompting fears of a broader mining crisis in one of the main commodity-producing countries.
  困扰南非铂矿的劳工骚乱昨日蔓延，令人担心这个主要大宗商品生产国的矿业陷入更广泛的危机。
• Spanish and Italian politicians scrambled on Tuesday to find a fresh response to the debt crisis engulfing the two countries as their borrowing costs hit new euro-era highs.
  周二，随着西班牙和意大利的借债成本创下欧元时代以来的新高，两国政界人士紧急采取行动，寻找应对本国债务危机的新举措。
• A photographer had fused the lights, engulfing the entire house darkness.
  一位摄影师把电灯的保险丝烧断了，使整栋房子陷于黑暗当中。