| 单词 | surround |
| 释义 | sur·round I. transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. a. < the crowd surrounded the victor > b. < clearly distinct from the more negroid people who surround them — C.D.Forde > c. < flatterers who surround the duke > d. < we sit surrounded by objects which perpetually express the oddity of our own temperaments — Virginia Woolf > e. < the snow and ice which surround the earth's polar regions — J.G.Vaeth > f. < woodland patches surround the village — American Guide Series: Vermont > < house surrounded on three sides by a wide veranda — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > g. (1) < a fog surrounds the ship > < complete secrecy surrounded the meeting — Current History > < the silence that surrounded them — Walter O'Meara > (2) < a hard black shell surrounded by a pulpy, fibrous covering — Tom Marvel > h. < the years that surrounded the American Revolution > 3. < surrounded himself with outstanding men — Phoenix Flame > < sought to surround the international liquor traffic with serious restrictions — D.W.McConnell > 4. a. obsolete b. chiefly Midland 5. intransitive verb obsolete Synonyms: < the noisy, slovenly, argumentative militiamen who had surrounded Boston — Kenneth Roberts > < the unseen power which surrounds us — W.R.Inge > environ is likely to suggest lasting situation around, as though enclosing, and forming part of an environment < the passions and motives of the savage world which underlies as well as environs civilization — W.D.Howells > encircle may stress the idea of a circle, either a circle described by a route, march, or voyage or one enclosing something with or as if with something tangible, material, and lasting < the close which encircles the venerable cathedral — T.B.Macaulay > < faster planes now encircle the world in a few hours > circle means and connotes about the same things as encircle; the latter may more strongly suggest completeness or perfect roundness of the figure described < his eyes were darkly circled — Booth Tarkington > < the Vernon House … is circled with two rows of windows — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > ring is a close synonym, sometimes more vivid, for circle; it is not, however, generally used to indicate a traversing or course < a septuagenarian whose few sad last grey hairs, ringing an otherwise completely bald head — Irish Digest > encompass suggests an encircling which includes, discourages entrance or exit, or ensheathes and envelops < the strong fortress-walls which had long encompassed him — Charles Dickens > < whenever he moved beyond the walls … the drawn swords and cuirasses of his trusty bodyguard encompassed him thick — T.B.Macaulay > < nature was a presence which encompassed him widely — R.L.Cook > compass often suggests an enclosing which covers and protects or which envelops and weighs down < we must be humble, for we are compassed by mysteries — W.R.Inge > gird may indicate an encircling of or as if of the waist of a person, especially with whatever arms, strengthens, or encourages < Christian religious energy girded its loins with the cords of Francis and Dominic — H.O.Taylor > girdle may suggest any encirclement like that of a belt, sash, or zone < the great coastal plain which girdles the United States — Forrest Morgan > hem, in this sense, is likely to suggest an encirclement that confines and prevents or makes difficult escape, exit, or activity < the constables were hemmed in so closely that they could make no use of their pikes — T.B.Costain > < the rocky walls which, with the deep-flowing river, hemmed Matadi in on all sides — Tom Marvel > II. 1. a. b. c. 2. a. chiefly Britain < the brass surround of the electric bell — Elizabeth Bowen > < took tea out on the paved surround of the swimming pool — G.A.Wagner > < the surround of low brown hills — Louis Allen > < a fireplace surround > b. < the surround should be about of equal brightness with the test field — R.S.Woodworth > |
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