2007年6月14日 · Hm. I would only say "surrounded with" if there is someone that has already been established, doing the "surrounding". For example: The soldiers surrounded the enemy with legion upon legion of armed centries, ready for combat. They surrounded him with love. In all other cases, I would use "surrounded by".

2021年12月21日 · Yes, one could make one sentence, such as 3"The Soviet army came to Berlin; the surrounded city was doomed." In my sentence 2, post #2 we're talking about the mayor in his mansion at the center of the city, and the city surrounding his mansion. 2.

2013年11月1日 · Something can be surrounded without actually creating a barrier. An enclosure is a barrier of some kind, in my opinion. I would say that "enclosed" implies that there is an inside and an outside and that the two are separated.

2010年4月7日 · Hello. What is the word (if any) to describe a block of land which has 2(or 3 or 4) streets surrounding it. I've coined this word: "2 street-front land" and hope you'll give me the correct word. Thank you a lot in advance.

2015年1月26日 · 'Surrounded by crowds' seems illogical, but I think it's just as natural as the others you use. You can say all of them. Think of it this way: it isn't the same crowd all the time; there's one crowd at one o'clock and an entirely different group of people surrounding his booth at two o'clock. So there are multiple crowds.

2008年3月24日 · Surrounded by is the idiom. It is what 99.99 o/o of English speakers would say. If you say surrounded "with" it would be a matter of taste and you would be understood. English prepositions require learning many of their usages by heart.

2016年12月4日 · Walking into Tokyo station, you're surrounded of more 3,000 trains and a half a million people... Walking into Tokyo station, you're surrounded by more than 3,000 trains and a half a million people... For this sentence to be correct, surrounded needs by after it -- as OP suggests. With works elsewhere but not in this sentence.

2009年9月11日 · "I sat surrounded by ..." and "I was sitting surrounded by ...". To be more precise, is it possible to replace "sat surrounded by" with "was sitting surrounded" in the following paragraph? In Central Park, near 86th Street, a middle-aged shabby woman sat surrounded by five soiled and haphazardly bred dogs. They were retrieving and frolicking.

2008年3月27日 · I would describe a stairwell a stairway surrounded by walls (like a well is a hole surrounded by walls) and a staircase as a stairway with a freestanding railing (as if enclosed in a case of some kind) in an open room.

2011年6月16日 · Rendez-vous ! Vous êtes encerclés ! However, I'd like to know if we can use "entourés" as well..;the dictionary states that it can be used as a synonym in this context, but personally I find it sounds extremely weird to imagine a …