surround /səˈraund/ vt.1.包围，围住：Enemy troops surrounded the town. 敌军包围了这座城市。 The trees surround the house.树木围住了这座房子。 2.环绕：There are some strange things surrounding her.在她周围有许多怪事。surround… with…用…把…围住：They surrounded the house and garden with a fence. 他们用一道篱笆把房子和花园围住。
surroundings /səˈraundiŋz/ n. ( pl.)周围的事物，环境：live in pleasant surroundings 生活在舒适的环境中；sympathetic(ugly) surroundings 融洽（恶劣）的环境
［辨析］与circumstance, setting和environment辨见circumstance
