英语词汇“accosting”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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They see a man accosting particular individuals who may be walking down the street.
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It proposes certain new offences to deal with the accosting of women by men.
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We have got rid of loitering as being sufficient grounds for prosecution; we have insisted that there shall be accosting.
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What will happen is that it will act as a healthy deterrent on the man who has been used to kerb-crawling and accosting women.
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If a man is a kerb-crawler, he is loitering and accosting.
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Surely the nuisance is not just going slowly along the kerb, getting out and meeting somebody, but accosting or soliciting somebody.
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It is not clear whether men accosting women on the street are a lesser public nuisance than men who solicit from their cars.
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But you do not have to prove, difficult though that is, persistent accosting; you have to prove that it was done with a particular object.
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I assume for accosting or soliciting.
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In order to achieve that goal they are prepared to go along the street, mile after mile, accosting and upsetting all the women they can intercept.
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The man is accused of accosting her.
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We have the case of persistence, when time after time or for 20 minutes or more a man can be shown to be cruising around accosting different women.
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On several occasions she jumps up, even hopping over other goats and accosting a human observer.
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Private merchant ships are forbidden from trading and other ships from accosting.
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Examples of accosting