engulfed是什么意思？

engulfed

• v. 吞没，包住( engulf的过去式和过去分词 )；

例句

• I was engulfed in labyrinths of trouble too great to get out at all. 我陷入困难的迷宫中去,简直无法脱身.
• The little boat was engulfed by the waves. 小船被波浪吞没了.
• He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters. 他被一群记者团团围住。
• 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。
• An economic crisis engulfed the entire capitalist world. 经济危机席卷了整个资本主义世界.
• His lean body was engulfed in an ivory white afghan coat. 他瘦削的身躯裹在一件象牙色的阿富汗大衣中.
• It is quite easy to get engulfed in the hysterics and you have to be careful. 人很容易情绪失控，你要小心。
• 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。
• ...the pain that engulfed him... 将他吞噬的苦痛
• The flat is engulfed in flames. 那套公寓被火焰吞噬。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• 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.
  例句
  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。 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 emotion engulfs you, you are strongly affected by it.
  例句
  ...the pain that engulfed him... 将他吞噬的苦痛 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。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something;
  "a desk flooded with applications""felt inundated with work""too much overcome to notice""a man engulfed by fear""swamped by work"
  2. completely enclosed or swallowed up;
  "a house engulfed in flames""the fog-enveloped cliffs""a view swallowed by night"