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

  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。
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双语例句

  1. Congressional probes of multiple scandals engulfing the Obama administration are continuing.
    国会对奥巴马政府的多个丑闻调查仍在继续。
  2. But many of those present at this and a series of other town hall meetings were left angry by the apparent failure to confront the reality of the crisis engulfing the company.
    但在场的许多人，以及出席其它市政厅会议的许多人，都对这种明显不能正视危机正在席卷公司这一现实的态度感到愤怒。
  3. Leading airlines in Europe and Asia reported heavy losses yesterday amid the deepening crisis engulfing the aviation sector.
    随着日渐深重的危机席卷航空业，欧洲和亚洲的主要航空公司昨日公布了巨额亏损。
  4. The global financial crisis is engulfing the country's small and medium enterprises, tens of thousands of small and medium enterprises in China is facing a severe financial crisis.
    这场波及全球的金融危机正在吞噬着我国中小企业，我国数以万计的中小企业正面临严峻的财务危机。
  5. The technological revolution now engulfing the modern world has penetrated almost all aspects of daily life.
    科技革命支配整个现代社会，也渗入我们日常生活里几乎每一环节。
  6. Hurricanes do not keep engulfing New York.
    飓风不会一直肆虐纽约。
  7. Macrophages are the long-lived garbage disposals of the immune system, indiscriminately engulfing and digesting cellular debris and pathogens.
    巨噬细胞是免疫系统的常住垃圾处理器，无差别的吞噬和消化细胞碎片和病原体。
  8. Spanish and Italian politicians scrambled on Tuesday to find a fresh response to the debt crisis engulfing the two countries as their borrowing costs hit new euro-era highs.
    周二，随着西班牙和意大利的借债成本创下欧元时代以来的新高，两国政界人士紧急采取行动，寻找应对本国债务危机的新举措。
  9. The fictional character Walter Mitty created a better life for himself by engulfing himself in his dreams.
    虚构特性华尔特·米蒂由在他的梦吞没他自己为他自己创造了更好的生活。
  10. His breath left and he felt a dull pain in his side that spread, engulfing him.
    他的呼吸停止了，他觉得身体的一侧隐隐作痛，那疼痛扩散开来，笼罩住全身。
  11. Finite personalities are insubstantial fragments of this engulfing spiritual unity.
    有限的人格是这种兼容并包的精神统一的非实体的碎片。
  12. 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。
  13. 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。
  14. Professional services firms are planning to recruit several thousand staff in Greater China in stark contrast to the wave of redundancies engulfing the wider financial services sector.
    专业服务公司正计划在大中华区招聘数千名员工，与席卷全球金融服务业的裁员浪潮形成鲜明对照。
  15. The maelstrom of drug-related violence that is engulfing Mexico has produced exaggerated, sometimes xenophobic, alarm in parts of the United States.
    毒品有关的暴力犯罪所导致的混乱正在吞噬着墨西哥，并且形势在美国人心里被进一步夸大，使得美国人对墨西哥产生了恐惧和害怕心理。
  16. 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。
  17. A photographer had fused the lights, engulfing the entire house darkness.
    一位摄影师把电灯的保险丝烧断了，使整栋房子陷于黑暗当中。
  18. 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。
  19. 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。
  20. As you know, I feel it is immensely important for believers to seriously consider where we are as a nation and understand the dangerous spiritual tide that is engulfing us.
    如你所知，我觉得对信徒来讲，严肃认真地思考作为一个国家我们正在何处并认识到那危险的属灵浪潮正在吞没我们，是极其重要的。
  21. A spat between eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund has underlined the scale of the economic crisis still engulfing Greece.
    欧元区各国政府与国际货币基金组织（imf）的争执突显出希腊经济危机的严重性。
  22. The desert is engulfing our world, but that fellow is still considering how much his imagine can be glorified after the Arbor Day's show.
    沙漠正在吞噬我们这个世界，而那个家伙却在考虑这场植树节表演后他的形象是否会更加光辉灿烂一点。
  23. Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world.
    向着这些崇高目标的进程一直受到席卷全球的冲突的威胁。
  24. Slowly engulfing all my senses.
    慢慢地吞噬我所有的理智。
  25. 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。
  26. As the Israelis pulled back to re-group the Syrian commandos attacked, engulfing the column in a barrage of RPGs.
    当以色列人后撤重新集结时，叙利亚突击队发动了攻击，用RPG弹幕吞没了以色列纵队。
  27. 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。
  28. But are they strong enough to stop the violence that is engulfing the world?
    但他们有足够的力量阻止吞噬这世界的烽火吗？
  29. 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。
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