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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Hurricanes do not keep engulfing New York.
  飓风不会一直肆虐纽约。
• But many of those present at this and a series of other town hall meetings were left angry by the apparent failure to confront the reality of the crisis engulfing the company.
  但在场的许多人，以及出席其它市政厅会议的许多人，都对这种明显不能正视危机正在席卷公司这一现实的态度感到愤怒。
• The maelstrom of drug-related violence that is engulfing Mexico has produced exaggerated, sometimes xenophobic, alarm in parts of the United States.
  毒品有关的暴力犯罪所导致的混乱正在吞噬着墨西哥，并且形势在美国人心里被进一步夸大，使得美国人对墨西哥产生了恐惧和害怕心理。
• The fictional character Walter Mitty created a better life for himself by engulfing himself in his dreams.
  虚构特性华尔特·米蒂由在他的梦吞没他自己为他自己创造了更好的生活。
• Through about ten years development, the creativity industries economy is engulfing the entire world by the vigorous potential.
  创意产业经济经过近十年的发展，正以蓬勃之势席卷全球。
• 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。