encircle
vt. 包围; 围绕
To encircle something or someone means to surround or enclose them, or to go round them.
A forty-foot-high concrete wall encircles the jail...
监狱周围有一圈40英尺高的混凝土墙。
By 22nd November the Sixth Army was encircled.
到11月22日,第六军被包围了。
1. be around;
2. form a circle around;
3. bind with something round or circular
enclose, encircle, envelop, fence, surround
这些动词均有"包围"之意。
A similar system is used to contact the communications satellites that now continually encircle the earth.
人们正把同样的系统用来与目前绕地球飞行的通讯卫星保持联系.
This is avoidable by arranging the barriers to encircle the noise source.
要避免上述情况出现,可安排以屏障围绕噪音源头.
The goal of sokusen sohketsu was to encircle the enemy and then destroy him.
速战速决的目标是包围敌人,然后摧毁敌人.
It would take more than seven people to encircle the tree with outstretched arms.
树高19米,树干下围10米,中围6米,俗语称它“七楼八扎半,疙里疙瘩不上算”.
It takes the earth one year to encircle the sun.
地球绕太阳运行一周需要一年.