| 词汇 | engulf |
| 释义 | engulf verb[ T ] uk /ɪnˈɡʌlf/ us /ɪnˈɡʌlf/ to surround and cover something or someone completely: 包围;吞没;淹没 The flames rapidly engulfed the house.大火很快吞没了那座房子。 be engulfed by/inNorthern areas of the country were engulfed by/in a snowstorm last night.昨晚一场暴风雪席卷了这个国家的北部地区。 The war is threatening to engulf the entire region.战火有可能会席卷整个地区。 Enclosing, surrounding and immersing beleaguer beleaguered beset border box someone/something in dunk enclosure fence something off flooding gather gift wrap gift-wrapped girdle siege soak steep steep something/someone in something submersion swaddle swamp engulf | American Dictionaryengulf verb[ T ] us/ɪnˈɡʌlf/ to surround and cover completely: Floodwaters engulfed midwestern farmlands. Examples of engulfengulf A tendency toward exactitude arose, at times engulfing everything else. In these areas it is quite common for disagreements between individuals from the two groups to degenerate into ethnic conflicts engulfing several settlements. Frequently, glia engulf modified self during nervous system development. The stores were deposited on the bay ice and, due to water flowing over them, much was engulfed. First, they may engulf and mask a theoretically important causal link between marital distress and antisocial behavior that holds for only a subset of children. An encapsulated particle is a particle or drop (or, more generally, multiple particles or drops) that is completely engulfed by a second immiscible fluid drop. This process forms apoptotic bodies that seem to be engulfed by the oocyte. Any solute in the extracellular water will also be engulfed by such -uid-phase endocytosis. These methods mainly vary the amount of fluid engulfed into the shear layer and do not directly influence the small-scale mixing. The outer region of the mean-velocity profile grows here, engulfing the log-law region (figure 7a). It thus comes as no surprise to find much confusion engulfing this category. They are about the culture of commercialism that has engulfed medicine and, in the view of our authors, compromised its moral foundations. A signalling cascade triggers actin assembly, leading to the formation of cell-surface extensions that engulf the anibody-coated pathogen by ' zippering up ' around it. The accumulated external cost would engulf the potential revenues, making it no longer financially feasible for water use generation. Then the fluid nearest to the vortex is engulfed by it, as it follows a path leading to the vortex core. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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