engulf

英語

詞源

en- +‎ gulf

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ɪŋˈɡʌlf/

• （英國南部）音頻

  （文檔）

• 韻部：-ʌlf

動詞

engulf (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 engulfs，現在分詞 engulfing，一般過去時及過去分詞 engulfed)

1. (及物) 壓倒，壓垮

   Desperation engulfed her after her daughter's death.

   她女兒死後，她陷入了絕望中。

   • 2013 6月 18, Simon Romero, 「Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders」, 出自 New York Times, retrieved 21 June 2013:

     Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.

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   • 1934, The Modern Monthly, 卷 8，頁號 308:

     The blank spaces of Mallarmé, the silence of Maesterlinck, the inaniloquous repetitive babblings of Gertrude Stein are the abyss which threatens to engulf creative effort if it continues in this direction.

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2. (及物) 包圍，吞沒，吞噬

   Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.

   大洪水吞噬整個世界時，只有諾亞和他的家庭存活下來了。

3. (及物) 使...變成海灣

異序詞

• Lufeng