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To include a wide range of things within one plan, idea, or subject - a new curriculum might 'encompass' science, art, and history all at once. It can also be used literally, meaning to surround something completely, like a valley 'encompassed' by mountains on every side.
包含、涵蓋（範圍廣泛地包括多項事物）；(literal)環繞、包圍
組成en- (to make, to put into) + compass (originally, to go around).
同家族的字
- compassshares the root meaning to go around, as in the navigation tool or the tool for drawing circles
原始詞典資料4 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。
encompassverb/ɪnˈkʌmpəs/
- 1
To form a circle around; to encircle.
- 2
To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.
- his piercing inſtruments of ſight: Whose fiery circles beare encompaſſed A heauen of heauenly bodies in their Spheares:
- Those trajectories encompassed absolute social extremes: the kings of France making their solemn entries into Paris through the Ludovician Arch of the Porte [...]
- 3
To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively.
- This book on English grammar encompasses all irregular verbs.
- 4
To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.
- Drake encompassed the globe.
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。