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encircled

/en-sur-kuhl/US // ɛnˈsɜr kəl //UK // (ɪnˈsɜːkəl) //

围绕着,环绕着,围绕着的,环绕着的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    en·cir·cled, en·cir·cling.

    • : to form a circle around; surround; encompass: to encircle an enemy.
    • : to make acircling movement around; make the circuit of.

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Examples

  • The building’s east side had been cleared of all protesters and encircled in barricades.

  • These currents, which stretch from the eastern seaboard across to southern Europe and northern Africa, encircle a region known as the Sargasso Sea.

  • This is likely because the cookies are in a soft container, so they’re not as easily jostled, and the baggies can be thoroughly encircled with bubble wrap.

  • Theories of solar system formation predict that most planets are born in a disk of gas and dust that encircles a young star.

  • Further, booms — floating curtains made of plastic or other materials that serve as barriers to contain oil — could be used to encircle the vessel before it sinks, he said.

  • Flesh encircled him at the main pool of the Paradise Hotel and Residences at Boca.

  • Plus “The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth/And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath”?

  • De Merode is hundreds of miles from his wife and daughters, encircled by hostile forces, a target on the back of his uniform.

  • With Donetsk now encircled, the stage is set for a final and potentially very bloody urban showdown.

  • The 7,000-ton freighter is still stocked with sake bottles and four fighter planes, and it is encircled by gray reef.

  • It was encircled by a ditch, but the drawbridge was down, and the rust on its chains argued that long had it been so.

  • In the outer part of the garden, especially towards the north-west, a thick border of trees encircled it, as with a frame.

  • With her all-powerful and elastic muscles she encircled and oppressed her mount, clawing with two great talons at his breast.

  • He was not of the Allied Patrol nor of any branch of the police force that encircled the world in its operations.

  • In the center of the encircled valley a lake shimmered blue as the sky, and about that lake was a city.