encircle

英 [ɪnˈsɜːkl]

美 [ɪnˈsɜːrkl]

v.  环绕; 围绕; 包围

过去式：encircled　现在分词：encircling　过去分词：encircled　第三人称单数：encircles　

TEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.12255 / COCA.10550

牛津词典

verb

• 环绕；围绕；包围
  to surround sb/sth completely in a circle
  1. Jack's arms encircled her waist.
     杰克的双臂搂着她的腰。
  2. The island is encircled by a coral reef.
     这个岛周围都是珊瑚礁。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 包围;环绕
  Toencirclesomething or someone means to surround or enclose them, or to go round them.
  1. A forty-foot-high concrete wall encircles the jail...
     监狱周围有一圈40英尺高的混凝土墙。
  2. By 22nd November the Sixth Army was encircled.
     到11月22日，第六军被包围了。

英英释义

verb

• bind with something round or circular
  Synonym:gird
• form a circle around
  1. encircle the errors
  Synonym:circle

双语例句

• Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
  有许多公牛围绕我，巴珊大力的公牛四面困住我。
• By 22nd November the Sixth Army was encircled.
  到11月22日，第六军被包围了。
• A similar system is used to contact the communications satellites that now continually encircle the earth.
  人们正把同样的系统用来与目前绕地球飞行的通讯卫星保持联系。
• To encircle with or as if with a halo.
  围绕或好象以光环围绕。
• If we take the chickens, slaughtered daily, and place them wing to wing, they would encircle the Earth's equator more than two times!
  如果我们把每天屠宰的鸡从翅膀到翅膀连接起来，可以围绕地球赤道两周还多！
• The Urban Loop is an interstate highway planned to encircle the city.
  市环是州际高速公路计划包围城市。
• Japan is using dozens of army divisions of fairly high combat effectiveness and part of her navy to encircle and blockade China from both land and sea, and is using her air force to bomb china.
  日本用其战斗力颇强的几十个师团的陆军和一部分海军，从陆海两面包围和封锁中国，又用空军轰炸中国。
• A forty-foot-high concrete wall encircles the jail
  监狱周围有一圈40英尺高的混凝土墙。
• This is the parents of Mianyang encircle the results of trouble!
  这是绵阳的家长围起来闹事的结果！
• And does not encircle a city.
  但并不围城而建。