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

• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• It engulfs you and leads the way in the flight.
  它危及到你和领导的方式飞行。
• 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。
• Once the antibody-bearing virus latches onto a targeted cell, the hapless cell engulfs it in a membrane sac and pulls it inside.
  一旦这种带有抗体的病毒与目标细胞相接，该不幸的细胞就会形成膜泡，将病毒吞入细胞内。
• If oil were spilled in the winter, cleanup would take place in the total darkness that engulfs the region during those months.
  如果石油在冬天发生泄露，清理工作就要在那几个月的一片漆黑中进行。
• 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。