英语词汇“surround”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

verb | noun

surroundsurround1 /səˈraʊnd/ ●●● W2 verb [transitive]

ETYMOLOGYsurround¹

Origin: 1400-1500 Old French suronder to overflow, flood, from Late Latin superundare, from Latin unda wave

VERB TABLE

surround

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	surround
	he, she, it	surrounds
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	surrounded
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have surrounded
	he, she, it	has surrounded
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had surrounded
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will surround
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have surrounded

Continuous Form
Present	I	am surrounding
	he, she, it	is surrounding
	you, we, they	are surrounding
Past	I, he, she, it	was surrounding
	you, we, they	were surrounding
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been surrounding
	he, she, it	has been surrounding
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been surrounding
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be surrounding
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been surrounding

COLLOCATIONS► have ... surrounded

Police have the building surrounded.

1BE ALL AROUND to be all around someone or something: A high fence surrounds the building. The lake is surrounded by trees.2PUT ALL AROUND surround something with something to put things all around something: They surrounded the site with barbed wire.3POLICE if police or soldiers surround a place, they arrange themselves in positions all the way around it: FBI agents surrounded the house. Police have the building surrounded.4GROUP OF PEOPLE if a lot of a particular type of people surround you, they are near you or are important in your life: At work, I’m surrounded by idiots.5BE RELATED to be closely related to a situation or event: A great deal of controversy has surrounded the new drug.6surround yourself with somebody/something to choose to have certain people or things near you all the time: He surrounds himself with women.[Origin: 1400–1500 Old French suronder to overflow, flood, from Late Latin superundare, from Latin unda wave]