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vt. 包围, 环绕, 围绕 n. 围绕物

发音

US /səˈɹaʊnd/

词形变化

surrounds 复数 surrounded surroundest surroundeth surrounding surrounds 三单 surrounds surrounding 现在分词 surrounded 过去式 surrounded 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

围绕物

动词

围绕；包围

to be all around someone or something on every side

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

    He drifted through the room, avoiding the furniture by instinct, closed the door that led to the passage, and only then flicked on his flashlight. It swept around the room, picking out a desk, a telephone, a wall of bookshelves, and a deep armchair, and finally settled on a handsome fireplace with a large surround of red brick.

v. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.

    包围

    围绕

    及物
  2. 2.

    To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.

    包围

    及物

    The lions surrounded the deer herd so they had no way to escape.

    They surrounded each other in the classroom and started trading hits.

  3. 3.

    To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.

    废旧 及物

    to surround the world

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

environment surroundings environs

下位词 10

scene parts setting element medium habitat ambience ambiance melting pot home ground
动词

同义词 10

ring wall border fence skirt smother circumvent besiege environ beleaguer

上位词 8

meet touch attack protect cover contact assail adjoin

下位词 10

fringe blockade girdle stockade ebb cloister enclose close in circumvallate gird

相关短语

surround sound 环绕立体声 surround sounds surround and drown

词源

From Middle English sourrounden (“to submerge, overflow”), from Middle French souronder, suronder, from Late Latin superundō, from super + undō (“to rise in waves”), from unda (“wave”).

来源：wiktionary