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

• But many of those present at this and a series of other town hall meetings were left angry by the apparent failure to confront the reality of the crisis engulfing the company.
  但在场的许多人，以及出席其它市政厅会议的许多人，都对这种明显不能正视危机正在席卷公司这一现实的态度感到愤怒。
• Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world.
  向着这些崇高目标的进程一直受到席卷全球的冲突的威胁。
• Finite personalities are insubstantial fragments of this engulfing spiritual unity.
  有限的人格是这种兼容并包的精神统一的非实体的碎片。
• Congressional probes of multiple scandals engulfing the Obama administration are continuing.
  国会对奥巴马政府的多个丑闻调查仍在继续。
• 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 bribery allegations engulfing Siemens, the German industrial group, provide one recent high-profile example.
  涉及德国工业集团西门子（siemens）的行贿指控，提供了一个引人注目的最新例证。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Slowly engulfing all my senses.
  慢慢地吞噬我所有的理智。