| 单词 | enclose |
| 释义 | en·close or in·close 1. a. < enclose a porch with glass > : surround < enclose a yard with a fence > specifically b. < mountains enclosed the town > < enclosed in a circle of candlelight — Stuart Cloete > c. < a convict enclosed within walls for life > : subject (a religious or a building or an area) to the rules of enclosure < an enclosed order of nuns > < enclose the chapel > d. 2. < a check enclosed with a letter > 3. < his fingers enclosed the money > Synonyms: < their prey enclosed within a ring — William Wordsworth > < the study of the history of ideas and their enclosing words — C.A.Beard > envelop implies complete enclosure on all sides, especially one opaque or translucent but yielding and penetrable < the sweet, often incense-laden atmosphere … enveloped her like a warm and healing garment — Rose Macaulay > < the great chilly unused drawing room whose spacious ceremoniousness seemed to embrace and envelop her — J.C.Powys > The remaining words in this set are closely connected with cognate nouns and may show regional variations. In general, fence is to close off as if with a fence; it suggests an area barred to entrance or exit and somewhat protected. It is wide and often figurative in use < a Kirghiz tent, with all its muffled walls … would not suffice to fence out that insistent sunlight — Sacheverell Sitwell > < fencing off a corner of the sea with dikes — New York Times > pen is to enclose in a pen especially to prevent straying. It expresses irksome restriction, but ideas of confinement are stronger in the following words < pigs and geese are penned up for the night > < practically the whole of the population is penned in on a narrow coastal strip — W.A.Lewis > coop reinforces notions of prevention of straying, stresses structure rather than area, and more strongly implies narrow and cramped limitation inhibiting activity < poultry cooped up > < they feel themselves in a state of thralldom, they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in — Edmund Burke > < sent their whole army over here onto this island and cooped it up so it couldn't get away — Kenneth Roberts > corral suggests prevention of straying or escape by enclosing in larger, less cramping, but stronger and more secure quarters < to corral rodeo broncos > It usually connotes difficulty in driving or controlling whatever is corralled and is often figurative < the vitamins are being corralled one by one and the proteins are being brought under control — C.C.Furnas > < to corral as many different and mutually hostile groups of voters as he can — New Republic > cage connotes prevention of escape by confinement in a strong small structure; it suggests more inexorable confinement < caged eagles > < as sullen as a beast new-caged — Alfred Tennyson > < the feeling of caged muscular tightness has provoked a fairly widespread desire to emigrate from Britain — J.R.Chamberlain > wall suggests strong impenetrable construction barring entrance or exit and guaranteeing confinement or security < when towns were so small that they were walled in as gardens are now — G.B.Shaw > < an artificial universe … walled off from the world of nature — Aldous Huxley > |
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