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 photographer had fused the lights, engulfing the entire house darkness.
  一位摄影师把电灯的保险丝烧断了，使整栋房子陷于黑暗当中。
• His breath left and he felt a dull pain in his side that spread, engulfing him.
  他的呼吸停止了，他觉得身体的一侧隐隐作痛，那疼痛扩散开来，笼罩住全身。
• 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。
• Professional services firms are planning to recruit several thousand staff in Greater China in stark contrast to the wave of redundancies engulfing the wider financial services sector.
  专业服务公司正计划在大中华区招聘数千名员工，与席卷全球金融服务业的裁员浪潮形成鲜明对照。
• As you know, I feel it is immensely important for believers to seriously consider where we are as a nation and understand the dangerous spiritual tide that is engulfing us.
  如你所知，我觉得对信徒来讲，严肃认真地思考作为一个国家我们正在何处并认识到那危险的属灵浪潮正在吞没我们，是极其重要的。
• A spat between eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund has underlined the scale of the economic crisis still engulfing Greece.
  欧元区各国政府与国际货币基金组织（imf）的争执突显出希腊经济危机的严重性。
• Hurricanes do not keep engulfing New York.
  飓风不会一直肆虐纽约。
• 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 technological revolution now engulfing the modern world has penetrated almost all aspects of daily life.
  科技革命支配整个现代社会，也渗入我们日常生活里几乎每一环节。
• 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。