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

• 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 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。
• A credit crisis is engulfing the US and Europe, said Mr Fink, an Anderson alumnus and UCLA graduate.
  作为安德森商学院及加州大学洛杉矶分校毕业生的芬克表示：一场信贷危机正在席卷美国和欧洲。
• 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。
• Hurricanes do not keep engulfing New York.
  飓风不会一直肆虐纽约。
• 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 crisis engulfing Toyota deepened yesterday when the US government urged the owners of more than 2m recalled cars and trucks to stop driving them and take them to dealers for repair.
  丰田汽车（Toyota）的危机昨日进一步加剧，美国政府敦促200多万辆被召回轿车和卡车的车主停止驾驶这些车辆，并将其送往经销商处维修。
• Slowly engulfing all my senses.
  慢慢地吞噬我所有的理智。
• The British parliament is holding a rare emergency debate on Wednesday on the scandal engulfing the media group News International.
  英国议会在周三罕见的召开紧急辩论，讨论新闻国际集团（NewsInternational）的丑闻问题。
• 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。