engulf

英语

词源

en- +‎ gulf

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：/ɪŋˈɡʌlf/

• （英国南部）音频

  （文档）

• 韵部：-ʌlf

动词

engulf (第三人称单数简单现在时 engulfs，现在分词 engulfing，一般过去时及过去分词 engulfed)

1. (及物) 压倒，压垮

   Desperation engulfed her after her daughter's death.

   她女儿死后，她陷入了绝望中。

   • 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.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

   • 1934, The Modern Monthly, 卷 8，页号 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) 包围，吞没，吞噬

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

   大洪水吞噬整个世界时，只有诺亚和他的家庭存活下来了。

3. (及物) 使...变成海湾

异序词

• Lufeng