engulfs

英 [ɪnˈɡʌlfs]

美 [ɪnˈɡʌlfs]

v.  包围; 吞没; 淹没; 严重影响
engulf的第三人称单数

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

• Incredibly, while the rabbits hair literally engulfs it, the bunny itself weighs only six or seven pounds at max.
  虽然蓬松的毛发几乎把它自己全给遮住了，但这只小萌兔最重的时候竟然也才只有6、7磅。
• A cell, such as a white blood cell, that engulfs and absorbs waste material, harmful microorganisms, or other foreign bodies in the bloodstream and tissues.
  一种细胞，如白血球，吞食和消化血液和组织中的废物、有害微生物或其它异物。
• In the new century, the informationization tide engulfs the entire world.
  进入21世纪，信息化浪潮席卷全球。
• In the soft nonlinear regime at which the field exhibits limit cycle oscillation, the chaotic region increases and gradually engulfs the whole phase space as the current increases.
  在场呈极限环状态的“软”非线性区域，电子的混沌轨道占据大部分相空间；
• The past decades, especially in the past 10 years, has witnessed a rapid increase in Latin immigrants in the United States, which engulfs the assimilation speed of American Melting Pot.
  近10年来，美国出现了拉美裔移民激增的现象，远远超过美国文化熔炉的同化速度。
• This was not Beijing, Shanghai or any of the other Chinese cities where a thick pall of smog regularly engulfs residents. It was Los Angeles almost 60 years ago, one of two western cities famous for choking levels of air pollution.
  这不是北京、上海或是任何一座经常被浓重雾霾笼罩的中国城市，而是近60年前的洛杉矶。西方有两座城市曾以呛人的空气污染而闻名，洛杉矶是其一。
• If the eurozone debt crisis engulfs Germany, forcing it to raise taxes and cut spending to assist large economies like Spain or Italy, then the Swiss franc is likely to be dragged down too.
  如果欧元区债务危机席卷德国，迫使德国提高税收、削减开支，以帮助西班牙或者意大利这样的大型经济体，那么瑞士法郎也可能被拖下水。
• Today which engulfs the entire world at the financial crisis, our country economy the pressure which faced with the exterior demand remarkable reduction, the economical speed-up recedes obviously.
  在金融危机席卷全球的今天，我国经济面临外部需求显著减少、经济增速明显回落的压力。
• Facing the financial crisis which engulfs the entire world, The technological innovation effect appears more important.
  面对席卷全球的金融危机，技术创新的作用显得更为重要。
• Firemen battle to control a fire as it engulfs a residential area in Makati City, in suburban Manila.
  马尼拉郊区马卡蒂市，消防员在与吞没居民区火灾搏斗试图控制大火的蔓延。