英语释义

• flow over or cover completely;

  "The bright light engulfed him completely"

• engross (oneself) fully;

  "He immersed himself into his studies"

片语

Cold Ice engulf寒冰吞噬

engulf f席卷

engulf entangle entanglement immixture卷入

Flames engulf the bus火焰吞噬了客车

I engulf the skies我吞没着天空

engulf in吞没

engulf index吞噬指数

devour吞食；毁灭

gulf吞没

engulf swallow吞没

to engulf席卷

英汉例句

• dust, smoke and ash engulf buildingsaround the world trade center in new york city, after the collapse of bothtowers on september 11, 2001.

  北塔坍塌时尘烟以及灰吞没了世贸中心周围的建筑。

• the trouble is that, while cells within cells are common in eukaryotes, which often engulf other cells, they「re vanishingly rare in more rigid bacteria.

  问题是，虽然胞内同生在真核生物中非常常见，这往往造成吞噬其他细胞，但是在较为硬质的细菌难以察觉。

• someday the euro debt crisis that started in greece and spread to engulf europe will be over.

  总有一天，起自希腊、蔓延乃至吞噬欧洲的欧版债务危机会结束。

• seize them , embrace them , let them engulf you , draw from them the uttermost of what they have to give , for if you rebuff them , they will not come again .

  抓住它，拥抱它，让它将你包围，穷尽它所给予的一切，而如果你拒绝了它，它将不会再来。

• tens of thousands of ordinary egyptians marched to surround mr mubarak」s palace, and more still to engulf the state broadcasting headquarters.

  数以万计的普通民众在穆巴拉克宫殿周围游行，更有甚者包围了国家广播总部。

• i have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.

  我到了深水中。大水漫过我身。

• this success is all the more remarkable considering the troubles that regularly seem to engulf the company.

  鑒于公司似乎总受定期出现的麻烦的困扰，这个成绩尤显突出。

• for example, in the presence of bacterial food, the ancient ancestors turned on the expression of genes that allowed them to crawl around and engulf their prey.

  例如，有细菌性食物时，古代的祖先会打开基因的表达，这些基因允许他们爬过去并且吞噬他们的捕食。

• this vicious cycle gets worse as the spreading dead zones engulf the cod’s deep-water breeding grounds, he added.

  这种恶性循环不断发展，死亡地带就不断扩大，最终吞噬掉鳕鱼在海底的繁殖地。

• once i had stood before the imperial palace in the forbidden city, hat in my hands, waiting for the realization to engulf me.

  又一次我曾经站在故宫的大殿前面，手里拿着帽子，等待着现实来把我包围。

• property prices in the us have already dropped by almost a third from their peak, as the crisis spread from lower-paid sub-prime borrowers to engulf the entire housing market.

  随着美国房贷危机从低收入的次贷借款人蔓延至整个房地产市场，美国的房地产价格已经从最高点下跌了近三分之一。

• her demand that creditors must share in the losses triggered what is now being called the 「merkel crash」, which threatens to engulf not just ireland but portugal, spain and even italy.

  她要求债权国必须共同负担损失，这也是现在所谓的「默克尔事故」的导火索。 「默克尔事故」预示着受到影响的不仅仅是爱尔兰，还有葡萄牙和西班牙，甚至还有意大利。

• but if a crisis does engulf the world, that may be a leap some are willing to make.

  但是如果危机席卷全球，那么这样的跳跃，将是许多人愿意尝试的。

• some fear that speaking out about the need for expenses-related sackings could set off a wave of retribution that could eventually engulf them too.

  一些人害怕说出需要相关开支证据，可能会引起应得的惩罚风波，最后也把他们全都吞噬完。

• but greece was reeling under its huge burden, and its woes were threatening to engulf other countries.

  但是希腊已在巨大的债务负担下摇摇欲坠，而且它的麻烦可能吞噬其他国家。

• the crisis threatens to engulf several others.

  这个危机波及了其它几个成员。

• when the greek debt crisis threatened to engulf iberia in may, spain went in for the kill, slashing spending and freezing pensions.

  当五月希腊债务危机席卷伊比利亚半岛之时，西班牙开始行动：他们大幅削减开支并且冻结养老金计划。

• periodic plagues and famines ravaged europe and glaciers descended from the alps to engulf a number of villages.

  小冰河期是北半球1000多年来最冷的一段时间，间发性的瘟疫与饑馑肆虐欧洲，从阿尔卑斯山延伸下来的冰川吞没了一些村庄。

• ever since europe’s sovereign-debt saga began, euro-area policymakers have feared that the turmoil afflicting first greece, and then ireland and portugal, would engulf larger economies.

  自从欧洲主权债务危机开始，欧元区的政策制定者就一直担心先后侵袭希腊，爱尔兰和葡萄牙的动蕩会进一步席卷更大的经济体。

• the next ice age could take only weeks to engulf britain.

  下次冰期吞噬英国可能只需几个星期。

• consumer pleasures are transient. they engulf us for a short period and then they fade, like a drug.

  消费快乐是短暂的，像麻醉剂一样，短时间内会吞没了我们，然后就很快消失了。

• do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.

  求你不容大水漫过我，不容深渊吞灭我，不容坑坎在我以上合口。

• to acquire more land that they can sell, cities simply redraw their boundaries to engulf the surrounding farms.

  为了能够得到更多可以出售的土地，政府只需重新划分土地，把周围农民的土地吞并。

• as it replicated further it would eventually engulf the entire earth.

  随着它们的自我复制越来越猖獗，最终将淹没整个地球。

相似词

swallow吞下；咽下

inundate淹没；泛滥；浸水；（洪水般的）扑来

flood淹没，泛滥；大量涌入；大量送至；充满；使大受感动；照进；（发动机）使溢流；血崩

devour吞食；毁灭

flood淹没，泛滥；大量涌入；大量送至；充满；使大受感动；照进；（发动机）使溢流；血崩

devour吞食；毁灭

swallow吞下；咽下

overtake超车

inundate淹没；泛滥；浸水；（洪水般的）扑来