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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Hurricanes do not keep engulfing New York.
  飓风不会一直肆虐纽约。
• Macrophages are the long-lived garbage disposals of the immune system, indiscriminately engulfing and digesting cellular debris and pathogens.
  巨噬细胞是免疫系统的常住垃圾处理器，无差别的吞噬和消化细胞碎片和病原体。
• 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。
• As the Israelis pulled back to re-group the Syrian commandos attacked, engulfing the column in a barrage of RPGs.
  当以色列人后撤重新集结时，叙利亚突击队发动了攻击，用RPG弹幕吞没了以色列纵队。
• Labour unrest engulfing the South African platinum industry spread yesterday, prompting fears of a broader mining crisis in one of the main commodity-producing countries.
  困扰南非铂矿的劳工骚乱昨日蔓延，令人担心这个主要大宗商品生产国的矿业陷入更广泛的危机。
• The desert is engulfing our world, but that fellow is still considering how much his imagine can be glorified after the Arbor Day's show.
  沙漠正在吞噬我们这个世界，而那个家伙却在考虑这场植树节表演后他的形象是否会更加光辉灿烂一点。