| 词汇 | engulfed |
| 释义 | engulfed past simple and past participle ofengulf 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 drown enclosure fence something in fence something off flooding gather gift wrap gift-wrapped sheathe siege soak steep steep something/someone in something submersion swaddle Examples of engulfedengulfed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The stores were deposited on the bay ice and, due to water flowing over them, much was engulfed. 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. These in turn could be identified as true potential or 'just engulfed ' potential flow. They are about the culture of commercialism that has engulfed medicine and, in the view of our authors, compromised its moral foundations. From the stage, a flood of antipodal cultural references engulfed an enthusiastically appreciative audience. Nervous system engulfment basics: what gets engulfed, why, and how? Then the fluid nearest to the vortex is engulfed by it, as it follows a path leading to the vortex core. Upon closing the flaps, the dissolved dye is engulfed into the vortices, allowing the flow to be visualized. The regions became engulfed by the traditional political brokerage of the party system. This tongue was engulfed into the descending parcel. The viewer feels a frisson of terror as they too become engulfed in the great vortex of the storm. For me, this is a wonderful evocation of the utter blackness that we are all engulfed by in our moments of despair and despondency. By that time, penal institutions were already engulfed in another crisis : massive overcrowding. 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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