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单词 encroachment
释义
encroachment
noun[CorU]
uk
/ɪnˈkrəʊtʃ.mənt/us
/ɪnˈkroʊtʃ.mənt/
theactofgraduallytaking away someone else'srights, or takingcontrolof someone'stime,work, etc.:
逐步侵犯（权利）；慢慢侵占（时间）；逐渐干扰（工作）
The newcensorshiplawsareseriousencroachmentsonfreedomofexpression.新的审查法是对言论自由的严重侵犯。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Controlling and being in charge
  • aggrandize
  • assume
  • assumption
  • authoritative
  • authoritatively
  • commanding
  • dictate
  • harness
  • have (got)someoneby the short and curliesidiom
  • havesomeoneby the ballsidiom
  • havesomeoneeating out ofyourhandidiom
  • have/hold the whip handidiom
  • helm
  • override
  • police
  • policing
  • possess
  • power play
  • predominate
  • skipper
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(Definition ofencroachmentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofencroachment

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It was a significant political problem especially for the guilds, because in their view it was a severeencroachmenton their corporate liberties.
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Licenses of vessels which become involved in trespassing andencroachmentinto the jurisdictional waters of other countries are forfeited and not reissued.
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Encroachmentis a phenomenon generated by the existence of an increasing rural population with a large component of immigrants and refugees from neighbouring countries.
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Improved soil health means less erosion and higher productivity, thereby reducing the probability ofencroachmentof crops into natural ecosystems.
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This analysis speaks to a basic human reaction toencroachmentand social stress and can be equally applicable to the precolonial environment.
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As a marker of ownership, it signaled an illegitimateencroachmentupon common right.
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The present capitalistencroachmentgoes beyond the existing peasantry and in the process also reconstitutes the indigenous 'tribal' minorities into various forms.
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This protection may be sufficient to slow the drying of forest fuels and preserve them in a non-flammable state during most savanna fire encroachments.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradualencroachmentof ideas.
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The purpose of both provisions was to restrict federal power to the national sphere while excluding stateencroachmenton that sphere.
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A resulting sense of parochial pride could have a socially galvanising effect on parishioners, particularly in instances where encroachments were threatened.
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The final commentary, that of humanencroachmenton nature, ties the two above themes together.
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The fragments were isolated by distances of 70-650 m from continuous forest and fenced to preventencroachmentby cattle.
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It was, in effect, a tool used by the state to regulate its citizens rather than to protect them from theencroachmentof the state.
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Even the legal system recognizes this right to private decisionmaking and jealously guards it from unfairencroachment.
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