2. On occasion, animals and plants have been preserved after becoming immersed in tar or quicksand, trapped in ice or lava flows, or engulfed by rapid falls of volcanic ash. 有时,动物和植物被浸泡在焦油或流沙中,被困在冰或熔岩流中,或被迅速落下的火山灰吞没后被保存下来。
3. He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters. 他被一群记者团团围住。
4. Fear engulfed her. 她陷入深深的恐惧之中。
5. They reached safety seconds before the building was engulfed in flames. 他们到达安全地几秒钟之后,那房子就成了一片火海。