| 词汇 | encroach |
| 释义 | encroach verb[ I ] us/ɪnˈkroʊtʃ/ to take control or possession of something in a gradual way and often without being noticed: Farmers encroached on forest land to grow crops. These devices are encroaching on people’s privacy. encroachmentnoun[ C/U ]us/ɪnˈkroʊtʃ·mənt/ [ C ]Human encroachment threatens the birds’ nesting sites. Examples of encroachencroach Farmers responded by encroaching upon and dividing the commons. The long harvests, moreover, encroached on the time available for between-crop repairs and maintenance. The legal system encroached on the political system. In ph. gregaria it is much encroached on by other colours, and the hinder border is not usually visible. As can be seen from table 4, 13 per cent of total farm land is encroached, providing a significant addition to farmed area. He comes to the door while "we" are vegging out the next morning on the sofa (2, line 7), thus encroaching on the students' territory. A barium study is incomplete if the stomach is not clearly visualized, to exclude lesions encroaching on the oesophagus. Spurred by scientific materialism, matter was encroaching on the erstwhile preserve of spirit. The new subsegments may or may not be encroached upon, and splitting continues until none of the subsegments is encroached upon. By extension, anything that encroached on the clarity of this image was rendered parasitical and unworthy. Pronunciation, it seems, is a more sensitive area of language than the other linguistic levels because of the way in which it encroaches on identity and elicits strong attitudes. Only later do we read back onto the moments of encroaching consciousness the evil that is a consequence of the denial of those moments, not its incorporation into our being. The expansion of both legal and encroached milpa farmers seems to be one of the major causes of deforestation of lands that are not suitable for sustainable agriculture. Not only have former soldiers encroached into the social and political spheres of women, but a whole new social sphere, the economic one, is now totally dominated by males. Servants therefore perform a policing function in the home - guarding valuables, sizing up strangers, escorting their employers - that necessarily but not offensively encroaches upon the family's privacy. See all examples of encroach These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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