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

• But are they strong enough to stop the violence that is engulfing the world?
  但他们有足够的力量阻止吞噬这世界的烽火吗？
• Macrophages are the long-lived garbage disposals of the immune system, indiscriminately engulfing and digesting cellular debris and pathogens.
  巨噬细胞是免疫系统的常住垃圾处理器，无差别的吞噬和消化细胞碎片和病原体。
• The British parliament is holding a rare emergency debate on Wednesday on the scandal engulfing the media group News International.
  英国议会在周三罕见的召开紧急辩论，讨论新闻国际集团（NewsInternational）的丑闻问题。
• 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。
• A spat between eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund has underlined the scale of the economic crisis still engulfing Greece.
  欧元区各国政府与国际货币基金组织（imf）的争执突显出希腊经济危机的严重性。
• 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。
• Finite personalities are insubstantial fragments of this engulfing spiritual unity.
  有限的人格是这种兼容并包的精神统一的非实体的碎片。
• The bribery allegations engulfing Siemens, the German industrial group, provide one recent high-profile example.
  涉及德国工业集团西门子（siemens）的行贿指控，提供了一个引人注目的最新例证。
• 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。