A bed of loose sand mixed with water forming a soft, shifting mass that yields easily to pressure and tends to engulf any object resting on its surface. 流沙一种由松散的沙子和水混合成的沙层,形成一堆松软、移动的物质,在压力下很容易塌陷,并可吞没置留在沙面上的任何物质
If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event. 假使明天会有一场地震席卷英国,英国人也会设法在颓垣败瓦中找个地方见面饮宴来庆祝这件大事的吧。
Images of violence and of greed engulf us. 您将美放入我的手中。
Engulf \En*gulf"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Engulfed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Engulfing}.] [Pref. en- + gulf: cf. OF. engolfer. Cf. {Ingulf}.] To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.
It quite engulfs all human thought. --Young.
Syn: See {Absorb}.
Ingulf \In*gulf"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ingulfed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ingulfing}.] [Cf. {Engulf}.] [Written also {engulf}.] To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See {Engulf}.
A river large . . . Passed underneath ingulfed. --Milton.
Officials said thousands of miles of bushland was destroyed as fires threatened to engulf townships.
Neutrophils are white blood cells that ordinarily engulf and consume foreign material but also can aggravate inflammations.
The Douglas reforms may make wider reforms inevitable, as the inexorable forces of finance and debt engulf the welfare state.
The statement reflected the police concern the clashes might engulf other traditional Lebanese Forces' strongholds in east Beirut.
The secretary of state warned that extremism and an arms buildup could engulf the region.
The great constitutional scholar Alexander Bickel answered him, "It threatens to engulf us."
A United Nations spokeswoman said, however, that the two sides had heeded requests to stop firing soon after the fighters flew over. The fighting came as the conflict threatens to engulf all of Bosnia.
We have learned before that the large conflicts which engulf the world begin from small and unanswered aggressions.
Four Royal Air Force helicopters began evacuating people soon after midday, but with a midnight high tide threatening to engulf the town, lifeboats, fishing vessels and other craft were called in.
He said last week that Cubans are fortunate to be part of a struggle against the "giant counterrevolutionary tide" that threatens to engulf the world.