词汇释义
engulf /ɪnˈɡʌlf/ TEM4 GRE
1. verb If one thing engulfs another, it completely covers or hides it, often in a sudden and unexpected way. 常指突然吞没，吞噬
2. verb If a feeling or emotion engulfs you, you are strongly affected by it. 使陷入某种感觉或情绪
外刊例句
1. Sinn Féin, which is straining to keep its anti-austerity policies north and south of the border in alignment, warned of an impending crisis that could "engulf the political institutions" of Northern Ireland.(The Guardian)
2. Depression, divorce and dependency can engulf even old hands – and when Kennedy was elected, he was a 23-year-old from a remote Scottish farming community who'd only been to London twice before.(The Guardian - Opinion)
3. Such is the scale of the catastrophe that may be about to engulf the Labour party in Scotland that commentators and analysts are now deploying apocalyptic imagery to measure it.(The Guardian - Opinion)
4. Even if Labour are reduced to a mere rump of Scottish seats after 7 May, they ought to draw some comfort from the fact that the flames may soon also engulf the SNP.(The Guardian - Opinion)
5. As Sutton's followers chanted their heroes home, the orange-bibbed stewards were overwhelmed by supporters surging on to the turf at Gander Green Lane to engulf the brave men who had endured the best Coventry could throw at them in the frantic final 15 minutes.(The Guardian - Sport)
6. That flood will engulf the economy, as those who lose their jobs spend less and those who keep them save more in case they too are sacked.(The Economist)
7. Her demand that creditors must share in the losses triggered what is now being called the "Merkel crash", which threatens to engulf not just Ireland but Portugal, Spain and even Italy.(The Economist)
8. Kadima is split, has no real political base or ideology, and corruption scandals threaten to engulf Mr Olmert and his finance minister.(The Economist)
9. The Port Said families are furious; their innocent sons, they say, have been wrongly condemned by a politicised court to avoid the chaos that would engulf Cairo if the victims of the pitch invasion mostly supporters of Cairo's Ahly club were not avenged.(The Economist)
10. This is what allows things like amoebae to move around and engulf their prey.(The Economist)
11. The economic turmoil sweeping Asia was expected to turn south and engulf a country whose economy has been notoriously prone to boom-bust cycles.(The Economist)
12. And, by granting access to cameras in exchange for promises to curb the worst extremes of shadow trials, they can sometimes (though by no means always) tame the circus of sensationalism that threatens to engulf their work.But, more than this, lawyers and judges can preserve respect for justice by rooting out the anomalies in the law itself.(The Economist)
13. Now, two years after a UN-sponsored election that was heralded as a harbinger of stability at last, the same old horrors are threatening to engulf the eastern part of the country.(The Economist)
14. Though France and Germany invaded, and America is the hyperpower, emotionally Britain is still the natural power for muscle-flexing, neo-Soviet Russians to confront even if Britain's imperial grandeur is as outdated as the pea-soup fogs that, according to Russian textbooks, still engulf London.It isn't only politics.The Economist)
15. The PAD was nurtured by the palace and now threatens to engulf it.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
fire, flame, scandal + engulf
词汇来源
1550s, from en- (1) "make, put in" + gulf (n.) or else from Old French engolfer. Originally of seas, whirlpools, etc.; by 1711 of fire and other mediums. Figurative use from 1590s. Related: Engulfed; engulfing.
近义词
engross, plunge, steep, immerse, soak up, absorb
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