| 词汇 | engulfing |
| 释义 | engulfing present 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 engulfingengulfing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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. 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. The actual entrainment mechanism is a folding in and engulfing of the ambient fluid by movements of the interface which in general have two origins. Electron microscopy allowed us to observe oocytes engulfing spermatozoa through an endocytosis-like process. Divorce therefore felt to them like a very new tide of misfortune that was sweeping towards their families, engulfing their children and affecting their grandchildren. This is an extremely important initiative that goes right to the very heart of the societal change that is engulfing our world at the moment. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We must reach that dramatic conclusion to avoid the number of young unemployed people growing out of control and to prevent public anger engulfing us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a problem which is engulfing millions of our people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All they can do is to try desperately to keep their heads above the engulfing economic tide. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Two major national disputes are now engulfing our country and helping to create a summer of turmoil and discontent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Businesses are collapsing all around them and engulfing them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not a case of "big brother" engulfing some smaller or weaker authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would mean only the beginning of a new expansion and the engulfing of ever wider stretches of our countryside in the south-east. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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