engulfed

英 [ɪnˈɡʌlft]

美 [ɪnˈɡʌlft]

v.  包围; 吞没; 淹没; 严重影响
engulf的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：engulfed　过去式：engulfed　

COCA.45984

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

• It was not to be, and you were overwhelmed by the darkness that engulfed your world.
  因为你不可能让黑暗吞没你的世界。
• And rather than drowning in US dollars central banks the globe over were engulfed by a vicious dollar shortage.
  全球各央行不是被美元所淹没，而是被恶性美元短缺所吞噬。
• The farm was engulfed in drifting sands.
  该农场被流沙淹没了。
• You have died, a sheep without soul, which has already been engulfed by maggot's worm.
  您死了，一只绵羊没有灵魂，那些蛆虫已经准备好吞噬你。
• An economic crisis engulfed the entire capitalist world.
  经济危机席卷了整个资本主义世界。
• It has been engulfed, like the rest of the world, by recession and shrinking global trade.
  它已经像世界其他国家一样被经济衰退和全球贸易萎缩所吞没。
• The powerful blast burst the hotel's gas cylinders and triggered a blaze that quickly engulfed the300-room hotel.
  强大的爆炸爆裂酒店的气瓶，并引发大火很快吞噬了300间客房的酒店。
• Its far more likely that without international action, Libya would now be engulfed in civil war and bloodshed.
  如果没有国际行动，更有可能出现的情况是，利比亚现在会陷入内战和流血之中。
• One theory was that this sandbank had blocked flowing waters and generated huge whirlpools that engulfed vessels.
  有专家认为，这个沙坝阻挡了席卷而来的水流，由此形成的巨大漩涡将船只无情倾没。
• Russia then annexed Ukraine's Black Sea Crimean Peninsula, and a pro-Russia mutiny has engulfed eastern Ukraine.
  俄罗斯紧接着就吞并了乌克兰的黑海克里米亚半岛，一场亲俄的反抗席卷了乌克兰东部。