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encompass

/en-kuhm-puhs/US // ɛnˈkʌm pəs //UK // (ɪnˈkʌmpəs) //

包括,包围,涵盖,围绕着

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to form a circle about; encircle; surround: He built a moat to encompass the castle.
    • : to enclose; envelop: The folds of a great cloak encompassed her person.
    • : to include comprehensively: a work that encompasses the entire range of the world's religious beliefs.
    • : Obsolete. to outwit.

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Examples

  • California forests and shrublands encompass a patchwork of private, state, and federal management.

  • CEO Tim Cook has been doubling down on Apple’s so-called services business, which encompasses the App Store, to offset slowing growth in iPhone sales.

  • Clark, a veteran Amazon executive, will run the Worldwide Consumer unit, a group that encompasses most of what shoppers know of Amazon, including the retail website and the growing logistics empire that stocks and delivers items.

  • If there is any downside to the game, it’s that Endangered can never hope to encompass the truly vast scope of the extinction problem.

  • You have always wondered if his ill humor is reserved for you or is all encompassing.

  • Encompass Develop, Design Construct, LLC A Kentucky-based architect, design and construction service.

  • Cormac McCarthy once said that a novel can “encompass all the various disciplines and interests of humanity.”

  • The book is, unsurprisingly, a satire—no other genre could encompass two such divergent topics.

  • Cultural attitudes toward marriage have unquestionably shifted during the past half century, but those changes encompass everyone.

  • The original meaning, of course, did not encompass black people.

  • It is too much loaded with detail to be distinct; and the canvas is too large for the eye to encompass.

  • The Arii are situated by the side of the Drangæ both on the north and west, and nearly encompass them.

  • Ranges of grey and barren hills encompass the valley; the ground is for the most part covered with sand and gravel.

  • Your ladyship, so I understand, is at this moment under the impression that I desire to encompass—shall I say?

  • You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me.