1. 吞沒,淹沒:指湧入、覆蓋或包圍某物,使其消失或被毀。
2. 使陷入,使全神貫註:指完全占據某人的注意力、感情或時間。
The vehicle was engulfed in flames. 汽車被大火吞沒。
On occasion, animals and plants have been preserved after becoming immersed in tar or quicksand, trapped in ice or lava flows, or engulfed by rapid falls of volcanic ash. 有時,動物和植物被浸泡在焦油或流沙中,被困在冰或熔岩流中,或被迅速落下的火山灰吞沒後被保存下來。
He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters. 他被一群記者團團圍住。
Fear engulfed her. 她陷入深深的恐懼之中。
They reached safety seconds before the building was engulfed in flames. 他們到達安全地幾秒鐘之後,那房子就成了一片火海。
A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed an apartment block. 山崩掩埋了一座公寓樓之後,一名7歲的男孩被發現遇難。
Fear and despair engulfed me. 恐懼和絕望吞沒了我。
Flames engulfed the building. 火吞沒了整個建築。
The monkey engulfed the food whole. 這隻猴子囫圇吞下食物。
We were engulfed in dust. 我們被籠罩在塵土當中。
I feel engulfed with new ideas and information. 我感覺我的大腦中充滿了新想法和新信息。
In later paintings, the mountain was engulfed in ominous black clouds. 稍後些的畫裡,這座山已被惡劣的黑雲吞沒。
The tsunami that followed engulfed the northeast and wiped out entire towns. 隨後的海嘯淹沒了日本東北,吞沒了整個城鎮。
A few minutes later, he noticed an adjacent shed was engulfed in flames. 幾分鐘後,他發現桶旁邊的一個棚捲入了大火之中。
The overflowing river has engulfed many towns and villages along its banks. 泛濫成災的河水已把其沿岸一帶的許多城鄉給淹沒了。
In the silence that engulfed him the rushing water from outside seemed closer. 在吞噬他的安靜中,外面滾滾的水聲似乎離他更近了。
EUROPE's sovereign-debt crisis has already engulfed Greece, Ireland and Portugal. 歐洲主權債務危機已經吞沒了希臘、愛爾蘭和葡萄牙。
A few seconds after this picture was taken the aircraft was engulfed in flames. 照片拍攝後幾分鐘,這架飛機就被大火吞噬。
He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies. 他領他們穩穩妥妥的,使他們不至害怕。海卻淹沒他們的仇敵。
But left there are by now vast forests which engulfed all trails of human beings so fast. 但是不管它了,現在廣袤的森林裡,人類的足跡是蔓延的如此之快。
If technological progress grinds to a halt, it will be because chaos has engulfed the world; 如果科技不再進步,那是因為混亂吞沒了這個世界;
Magnani became so engulfed by the memories that he started to draw and eventually paint them. 馬格納尼沉浸在回憶中。他開始塗畫,最終把回憶的場景畫了出來。
The immediate consequence was to ignite a firestorm that engulfed Tunisia and the wider Middle East. 這件事直接導致了席捲突尼西亞和中東其他地區的一場風暴。
So far, the mud has engulfed 12 villages and displaced 10, 000 families, and is still surging today. 至今,泥漿已經吞噬了12個村莊,使一萬個家庭流離失所,今天依然在噴流。
But now the company has been engulfed by another, much more South African, sort of row, about race. 但是現在這家公司卻被另一個問題籠罩,以一種很南非的方式,對!又與於種族問題有關。
The station reports that when fire officials arrived at the scene, the home was fully engulfed in flames. 消防局報告說,當消防隊趕到現場的時候,這棟房子已經完全被大火所吞沒了。
When art lovers withdraw euros from the work, they find themselves engulfed by booming hymn-like chords. 當藝術愛好者從這件作品中取出歐元時,就會發現自己置身於突然迸發的猶如讚美詩般的和弦之中。