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To encircle someone or something is to go all the way around it until it is shut in — a ring of people, trees, walls, or soldiers with no real gap. It is stronger than stand around: the idea is a closed circle. You can encircle a child with your arms, a garden with a fence, or a town with troops. The army use is the most serious: if soldiers are encircled, they may have no way out. In everyday talk it is a clear, slightly careful verb; surround is the simpler word most people reach for. People do stretch it to feelings (“worries encircled him”), but the home picture is still a physical ring.
包圍、團團圍住
組成en- (in, into, so as to make) + circle (a round ring). From en- + circle.
同家族的字
- circlethe ring this verb is built from
- circularshaped like a circle, or moving in a circle
- encirclementthe noun: the act or state of being surrounded this way
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
encircleverb/ɪnˈsɜːkl̩/
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To surround, form a circle around.
- "Friday!" she called out, bursting open the doors and quickly encircling her friend in the warmth of her arms.
- […]two Russian armies would advance into East Prussia, one westward from the Niemen, the other northward from the Narew, with the object of encircling and immobilizing all enemy forces there.
- 2
To move or go around completely.
- It is also customary in the Orient and among Sephardim for the mourners to encircle the coffin of an erudite person seven times and recite Yoshayv besayter while making each circuit.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。