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

• 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。
• There is a loud roar and a light engulfs them.
  一阵巨大的咆哮和一阵强光吞没了他们。
• 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。
• "Obviously job creation has to improve," cutting says, "as well as the gridlock that engulfs Washington."
  “显然，必须进一步改善就业状况，”卡廷说，“同时还需要解决政府的僵局。”
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。