Surround
[sə'raʊnd]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; 'The forest surrounds my property'.
整理:希欧多尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
(v. t.) To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
(v. t.) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
(v. t.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
(n.) A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
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同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Encircle, environ, encompass, enclose.[2]. (Mil.) Invest, besiege, lay siege to.
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同義詞及反義詞:
[See ENCIRCLE]
整理:米莉
解釋/意思:
v.t. to go round about; to encompass environ: to cut off from communication or retreat.—n. Surround′ing an encompassing: (pl.) things which surround external circumstances.
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例句/造句/用法:
- This, O this may be the last time that you will surround me thus! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The green horde broke to surround the temple. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- And now we are near the spot; let us draw in and surround the cover and watch with all our eyes, lest justice should slip away and escape. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The scenes which now surround us, vast and sublime as they are, are not such as can best contribute to this work. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The corruption of our hearts, the evil of our ways, the curse that is upon us, the terrors that surround us--these were the themes of my childhood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Another method of giving illuminating power to water gas was to surround the flame with platinum gauze, which was rendered incandescent by the heat, and became highly luminous. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The simplest and most effective means for doing this in the laboratory is to surround it with a vacuum. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- If they have surrounded the hollow it is that, Robert Jordan said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The spire of Evian shone under the woods that surrounded it, and the range of mountain above mountain by which it was overhung. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- We would then have Lee so surrounded that his supplies would be cut off entirely, making it impossible for him to support his army. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The next step is to reproduce, as nearly as we can, the domestic circumstances which surrounded you last year. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- We found the ship in the river, surrounded by a crowd of boats; a favourable wind blowing; the signal for sailing at her mast-head. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He surrounded himself with an atmosphere of respectability, and walked secure in it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The entire community surrounded us, leaving a clear space about one hundred feet in diameter for our battle. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It was very pretty to look at, but seemed to have the effect of rendering surrounding objects rather darker than before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- When the trade had extended into all the surrounding counties, however, the new business needed another prime essential of industry--transportation facilities. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Suddenly he was sobered: a vacant space appeared near Miss de Bassompierre; the circle surrounding her seemed about to dissolve. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- This impression of my senses immediately conveys my thoughts to the person, along with all the surrounding objects. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Play tends to reproduce and affirm the crudities, as well as the excellencies, of surrounding adult life. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Of all the sources of evil surrounding the former, since her coming to Highbury, she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The heat of the food cannot escape through the non-conducting material which surrounds it, and hence remains in the food and slowly cooks it. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness which surrounds me? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- What we see and call the sky is the reflection of the sun’s rays on the belt of air that surrounds the earth. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I am going to try, more than ever, to adapt myself as you wish to what surrounds me--for indeed I have tried all along, though I have failed, I know. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- All that surrounds him hastens to decay; all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The fruit-wall frequently surrounds the kitchen garden, which thus enjoys the benefit of an inclosure which its own produce could seldom pay for. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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