engulf

verb

1. 包围；吞没；淹没
   to surround or to cover sb/sth completely
   1. He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters.
      他被一群记者团团围住。
   2. The vehicle was engulfed in flames .
      汽车被大火吞没。
2. 严重影响
   to affect sb/sth very strongly
   1. Fear engulfed her.
      她陷入深深的恐惧之中。

1. VERB （常指突然）吞没，吞噬
   If one thing engulfs another, 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。
2. VERB 使陷入（某种感觉或情绪）
   If a feeling or emotion engulfs you, 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。

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。
3. 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。
4. Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.
   最后，对于那些与我们为敌的国家，我们所要提供的不是保证，而是要求：双方重新着手寻求和平，不要等到科学所释出的危险破坏力量在有意或无意中使全人类沦于自我毁灭。
5. The pollution is expected to engulf Beijing until Wednesday, when wind will arrive to blow the smog away, according to a weather report from the meteorological station.
   根据北京气象站的天气预报，严重空气污染将持续影响北京至周三即1月16日，周三将有一股冷空气抵到北京吹散雾霾。
6. This kind of economic magic game can go on for a while until political and social unrests engulf the Fascist regime.
   这种经济魔法游戏会持续下去，直到发生政治社会动乱，吞没法西斯政权。
7. The Cave of Swallows in Mexico is a400m vertical shaft, deep enough to engulf the Empire State Building.
   原来，墨西哥的燕子洞有四百米深，足以放下整个帝国大厦！
8. It stayed calmly by my side, as the storm continued to engulf me in all its fury.
   当暴风雨继续以它的狂暴吞没我时，那只鸟却镇静地陪伴着我。
9. Macrophages are the immune cells that engulf and destroy the debris of damaged tissue to enable the healing process to begin.
   巨噬细胞是吞噬和消除受损组织碎片以启动修复过程的免疫细胞。
10. Listeria bacteria, for example, enter macrophage cells by luring these cells to engulf them.
    以李斯特菌为例，它会迷惑巨噬细胞并使之吞噬从而进入细胞。
11. No one should underestimate the viciousness of the recession likely to engulf America and spread round the world in 2009.
    任何人都不应低估这场衰退的危害性。这场衰退可能席卷美国，并在2009年波及全球。
12. Together with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us.
    同我们的朋友和同盟国一起，我们会把握形势变化，以避免我们被吞没。
13. Composition No.79 manifests a cragginess and complexity that engulf the overall image but the aesthetic conclusion is astoundingly sublime and pleasing to the eye.
    《构图第79号》所呈现的陡峭和复杂吞噬了整个画面，可是美术效果是意外地壮观且赏心悦目。
14. Instead of the rising tide which [ has] broadly benefited financial and investment markets for the last 10 to 20 years, we are now facing choppy seas which could engulf the broader economy globally.
    过去10到20年令金融与投资市场普遍受益的涨潮期已经过去，我们现在面对着一片波涛汹涌的大海，它可能会在全球范围内吞噬更广泛的经济体。
15. Throughout his six months in charge of the European Union Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, tried hard to carve out a role for Europe in responding to the financial crises that engulf the world with some success.
    在担任欧盟（eu）轮值主席的6个月内，法国总统尼古拉萨科齐（nicolassarkozy）一直不遗余力地推动欧洲参与到应对席卷全球的金融危机中来并取得了一定的成功。
16. Gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something.
    多洞穴的好象要吞噬某人或某物似的。
17. When it does, the sun will expand to engulf the inner planets and possibly Earth.
    一旦变成红巨星的时候，太阳将会膨胀并吞没内围的行星，也许包括地球在内。
18. If we are not strong enough to cover all the minds up, then they will engulf us, and we are in danger.
    如果我们不够坚强来抵挡大众的意念，就会有被他们吞没的危险。
19. He said the contagion of illegal strikes "will likely engulf the industry".
    他表示，非法罢工的蔓延“可能席卷整个行业”。
20. The tumor cells engulf and destroy the minicells, a standard defense against bacteria, and in doing so are exposed to whatever cargo the minicells carry.
    肿瘤细胞吞噬并分解这种微细胞，这是对细菌的正常防卫程序，但是这样做恰恰释放了微细胞所携带的货物。
21. In his first televised address from the Oval Office Barack Obama spoke about the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana, an environmental disaster that is also threatening to engulf his presidency.
    在他首场从椭圆形办公室发表的电视讲话中，贝拉克•奥巴马谈论了路易斯安那州海岸线边上的石油泄漏事件。这起环境灾难同时也威胁着要吞噬奥巴马的总统宝座。
22. In the span of30 years, such carnage would twice engulf this continent.
    30年的战火中，战场上的尸骨是这片大陆人口的两倍！
23. But I can't stay here for ever, and I know that when I leave here the cloud of fear will engulf me again.
    但是我不能永远都待在这儿，我知道当我离开的时候，恐惧的乌云会再次吞噬我。
24. The crowd will be happy to engulf you.
    快乐的人潮一下将你吞没。
25. The walls of the sinuses are lined with endocytic cells which engulf any foreign particles that might be present in the lymph.
    窦的壁衬盖着内吞细胞，这些细胞能吞食淋巴中可能出现的任何一种外来颗粒。
26. So if you engulf planet or large number of asteroids, you will have this Lithium-6 isotope in the spectrum of the star.
    所以，如果恒星吞噬过行星，或大量的小行星，就会有锂–6同位素存在于恒星的光谱中。
27. Macrophages are the immune cells that literally engulf and destroy deformed cells and attack invaders, like bacteria or viruses.
    巨噬细胞是一种免疫细胞，可吞噬和销灭畸形细胞以及攻击入侵者，如细菌或病毒。
28. It may soon confound realists who think that for all his flaws, Mr Assad is preferable to the chaos that could engulf Syria in his absence.
    现实主义者们可能很快就会感到挫败&在他们看来，尽管阿萨德有这样那样的缺陷，但总强于把他赶下台后、让叙利亚陷入无尽的混乱之中。
29. They swarm to the injury to engulf and destroy bacteria with toxic molecules and biochemicals.
    白细胞游走到损伤区吞噬细菌并通过释放毒素分子和生化物质破坏细菌。

verb

1. devote (oneself) fully to
   1. He immersed himself into his studies

   Synonym:    steepimmerseplungeengrossabsorbsoak up

2. flow over or cover completely
   1. The bright light engulfed him completely