In just four years a succession of spy scandals and disasters had engulfed both MI5 and MI6

4年之间，一连串的间谍丑闻和灾祸吞没了军情5局和军情6局。

A boat engulfed in/by the waves

被浪涛吞没的小船

Twice this week,St Mark’s Square has been engulfed by high tides.

本周圣马可广场两次被潮水淹没。

The carriages were engulfed in flames with terrifying speed.

车厢被很快移动的火焰所笼罩着。

The spring tide engulfed the beach houses.

春潮吞没了海滩上的房子

The waves engulfed the boat.

大浪吞没了小舟.

When she remembered, the fear engulfed her again

等她记了起来的时候，她又被恐惧吞噬了。

The earthquake engulfed /swallowed up the whole city

地震掩埋了整个城市。

The stormy sea engulfed the small boat

风暴肆虐的大海吞没了那只小船。

The country was engulfed in civil war.

该国陷入内战。

The farm was engulfed in drifting sands.

该农场被流沙淹没了。

The flood engulfed the farms and destroyed the crops.

洪水吞没了农场,毁掉了庄稼。

The floodwaters engulfed the entire village

洪水吞没了整个村庄。

The simple truth was that Elizabeth Roffe had no protective shield, no armor against the terrible loneliness that engulfed her

简单的真实情况是:伊丽莎白?罗菲没有保护的盾牌，没有盔甲来抵御向她卷来的那种可怕的孤独。

She was engulfed in an almost unbearable loneliness

她陷入了一种几乎难以忍受的寂寞。

An economic crisis engulfed the entire capitalist world

经济危机席卷了整个资本主义世界。

The high waves engulfed the ship.

巨浪吞噬了那艘船。

The dark night of the soul engulfed him, and he felt a strange, primeval terror he knew not what

灵魂的黑夜笼罩了他，他感到一种奇异、原始、难以名状的恐惧。

The quaint Persian city has been engulfed by a roaring metropolis

那富有奇趣的波斯城市已经被一座喧嚣的大都会所吞没。

Torrents of water rushed down the mountain and several villages were engulfed in the flood

山洪暴发，好几个村庄都被洪水淹没了。

the car-buying controversy that has engulfed Hong Kong’s financial secretary

受偷步买车丑闻缠绕的财政司司长

A poignant sense engulfed him of the one-way flow of time

他深感到岁月流逝，一去不回。

His lean body was engulfed in an ivory white afghan coat.

他瘦削的身躯裹在一件象牙色的阿富汗大衣中

He knew that even if his love could have been returned, it would have added only to his bitterness and sorrow, for he felt it would have been powerless to lift him from the slough of selfishness and sensuality that had engulfed him.

他知道即使他对她的爱得到了报答，也只会增添他的痛苦和悲愁，因为他感到这种报答无力把他从吞没了他的自私和情欲的泥沼中搭救出来。

It may well have been engulfed in the vast mass of congratulatory messages which were swept aside by urgent work

它很可能是被压在一大堆贺电里，由于公务紧急就搁在一边了。

Suddenly engulfed by the loneliness of it all, Stella buried her face in her hands and let the tears come.

突然间，无比痛苦的孤单感吞噬了斯特拉，她双手捂着脸，让眼泪尽情地流淌。

A wild washtub of whirling water engulfed us

我们被疯狂旋转的潭水吞没。

I was engulfed in labyrinths of trouble too great to get out at all

我陷入困难的迷宫中去，简直无法脱身。

I hugged my dad, and as I did, instead of being engulfed by the fear and panic I had always expected and dreaded, I felt a surprising peace and calm.

我拥抱了他，我并没有陷入我总是预想着和害怕着的恐惧和惊慌，而是感到非常安宁和平静。

Standing engulfed in the fumes filing the hall, it struck me that I couldn’t realistically reject the job

我站在过道里，四周尽是弥漫的烟雾，心里不由得想起，现实当前，这个工作多是不能拒不接受的。