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。
• 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。
• Akio Toyoda, Toyota's chief executive, assured US lawmakers on Wednesday that the crisis engulfing the carmaker had taught him to put more emphasis on feedback from customers and better information sharing in his global company.
  丰田（Toyota）首席执行官丰田章男（AkioToyoda）周三向美国议员保证，丰田此次遭遇的危机教育了他，要更加重视消费者的反馈意见，增进这家全球化企业的信息共享。
• The yen staged an extraordinary surge yesterday, rising on a flight to safety by investors as the crisis engulfing global financial markets intensified.
  在席卷全球金融市场的危机加剧之际，投资者纷纷寻求安全的投资，导致日元昨日大幅飙升。
• 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。
• 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。
• But are they strong enough to stop the violence that is engulfing the world?
  但他们有足够的力量阻止吞噬这世界的烽火吗？
• 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 global financial crisis is engulfing the country's small and medium enterprises, tens of thousands of small and medium enterprises in China is facing a severe financial crisis.
  这场波及全球的金融危机正在吞噬着我国中小企业，我国数以万计的中小企业正面临严峻的财务危机。