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

• 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。
• 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。
• Along with the enhancement of nationals 'opening degree and the sales space increasing, economic integration storm engulfs the world in the new century.
  在新世纪，随着各个国家开放程度的日益增强，销售空间的不断增大，经济一体化的风暴席卷全球。
• 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。
• 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。
• It is possible that the politicians still have a choice between orderly restructuring and a chaotic collapse that quickly engulfs everyone else.
  政治家们或许仍可在有序重组和迅速波及其它地区的混乱崩溃之间做出选择。
• 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；
• Increasing P2P business not only increases the benefit of the majority users but also engulfs a large number of network resources, even causes network congestion and reduces the performance of other businesses.
  P2P业务的不断增加，在广大用户受益的同时，却吞噬大量的网络资源，甚至引起网络拥塞，降低了其他业务的性能。
• Hemingway suppresses emotion, Wolfe engulfs the reader in feeling.
  海明威感情压抑，沃尔夫却把读者卷进感情的漩涡。