英语词汇“accosted”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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The biggest bugbear to many private soldiers is the possibility of being accosted by a military policeman.
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Will it spread the problem so that the chance of being accosted in the street will increase and spread over a wider area?
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It is not until the person who is accosted is willing and interested that there may be a discussion about money.
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Or does it suffice to be able to establish that a number of people have each been accosted once?
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In a way, one would like to have women protected if they are accosted in such a way as to be likely to cause fear.
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I wondered whether she had accosted anybody that night at all.
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He said that a man who was once wandering over a large estate was accosted by the owner and upbraided.
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I recently dealt with the case of a constituent whose son had been accosted and threatened on a train.
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I was accosted by a male member of a golf club in my constituency.
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I have accosted perhaps fifty to eighty strangers in the streets and on the roads, including two engine drivers and firemen.
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It has happend to my wife that she has been accosted two or three times by kerb-crawling cars, and it is most unpleasant.
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If you are holding somebody's hand you are neither being accosted nor importuned; you are agreeing with.
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The van can no longer be confiscated if they are accosted and accused of indulging in poaching.
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We started to walk, carrying our two bags, and on the way we were accosted by the police, who stopped us, and quite rightly.
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