Encircle

(verb.) form a circle around; 'encircle the errors'.

编辑:维姬

• She sat down on the edge of her patient's bed, and allowed the wasted arms to encircle her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There was something to the English peculiarly attractive in the idea of this wave-encircled, island-enthroned city. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Then he unfolded his arms, and held her encircled in one for an instant: 'You do well! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Unquestionably the doctrine-driven men who made the economics of the last century had much to do with the halo which encircled the smutted head of industrialism. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• His right arm encircled the lion's neck, while the left hand plunged the knife time and again into the unprotected side behind the left shoulder. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Green lawns with flower-beds are before the terrace, and the whole is encircled by the park. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• As Cassy expected, when quite near the verge of the swamps that encircled the plantation, they heard a voice calling to them to stop. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• My arm, as I sat, encircled her waist. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They had risen to their feet, and were standing looking at that solemn altar, so noble in its hugeness amid the encircling green. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• A watch balance is made with a rim of brass encircling and firmly united to the rim of steel. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Maurice and Justinian were thrown to the ground, and high above, amid the encircling peaks, shot up a mighty column of smoke, streaked with red fire. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Her brother glanced at her face with greater interest than usual, and, encircling her waist with his arm, drew her coaxingly to him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• They met in the little ditch encircling the tumulus--the original excavation from which it had been thrown up by the ancient British people. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• A general circulatory motion is in fact established ultimately in one direction about the central mass, which receiving new particl es from the encircling current rotates in harmony with it. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The ridge encircling the screw is called the thread, and the distance between two successive threads is called the pitch. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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