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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Fear and despair engulfed me.
  恐惧和绝望吞没了我。
• The flood waters engulfed the whole village.
  洪水吞噬了整个村庄。
• The little boat was engulfed in the waves.
  小船被波浪吞没了。
• 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。
• The house was soon engulfed in flames.
  房子很快被火焰吞没。
• The flat is engulfed in flames.
  那套公寓被火焰吞噬。
• An economic crisis engulfed the entire capitalist world.
  经济危机席卷了整个资本主义世界。