Envelop
[ɪn'veləp;en-] or [ɪn'vɛləp]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; 'Fog enveloped the house'.
克利夫顿錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.
(n.) That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
(n.) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma.
(n.) A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
(n.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.
(n.) A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine.
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同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Infold, inwrap, wrap, fold, wrap up, put a wrapper about.[2]. Surround, encircle, encompass, cover, hide.
n. Envelope.
奥布里校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to cover by wrapping: to surround entirely: to hide.—n. Envelope (en′vel-ōp sometimes but quite unnecessarily 鋘g′vel-ōp) that which envelops wraps or covers esp. the cover of a letter.—adj. Envel′oped (her.) entwined as with serpents laurels &c.—n. Envel′opment a wrapping or covering on all sides.
格拉迪斯校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Burnside was ordered if he should succeed in breaking the enemy's centre, to swing around to the left and envelop the right of Lee's army. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The army then proceeded to envelop Petersburg towards the South Side Railroad as far as possible without attacking fortifications. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- That consisted of two matchless lips and a cheek only, her head being still enveloped. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Paths, hedges, fields, houses, and trees, were enveloped in one deep shade. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She had enveloped both Will and Rosamond in her burning scorn, and it seemed to her as if Rosamond were burned out of her sight forever. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The soft isolation of the falling day enveloped them: they seemed lifted into a finer air. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- And Mrs. Trenor, glowing with her sex's eagerness to smooth the course of true love, enveloped Lily in a long embrace. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- One night, to test his alleged fearlessness, a man stationed himself behind a tree and enveloped himself in a sheet. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- While our troops were advancing they were struck in flank, and their flank was enveloped. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The girls and the man lay with their faces upon their arms, as if they had tried to shield them from the enveloping cinders. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Almost one fifth of the air which envelops us is made up of the life-giving oxygen. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In consequence of this hint, Lily found herself the centre of that feminine solicitude which envelops a young woman in the mating season. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Leucodore, clione and other borers, parasitic or domiciliary worms work into the shell, and instinctively the protecting nacreous fluid envelops the intruder. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This lamp, to my mind, envelops with a cloud of distrust the whole Goebel story. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The atmosphere which envelops us at all times extends more than fifty miles above us, its height being far greater than the greatest depths of the sea. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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