encroachment

英 [ɪnˈkrəʊtʃmənt]

美 [ɪnˈkroʊtʃmənt]

n.  侵占; 侵蚀; 蚕食

复数：encroachments　

法律

BNC.14876 / COCA.16225

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 侵占;侵蚀;蚕食
  You can describe the action or process of encroaching on something asencroachment.
  1. It's a sign of the encroachment of commercialism in medicine...
     这是医药界被逐渐商业化的一个的征兆。
  2. The problem was to safeguard sites from encroachment by property development.
     问题是要保护遗址免受房地产开发商的侵占。

英英释义

noun

• influencing strongly
  1. they resented the impingement of American values on European culture
  Synonym:impingementimpact
• entry to another's property without right or permission
  Synonym:trespassviolationintrusionusurpation
• any entry into an area not previously occupied
  1. an invasion of tourists
  2. an invasion of locusts
  Synonym:invasionintrusion

双语例句

• He believes that continued peace requires not just restraint of armed encroachment.
  他相信持久的和平不只是要求制止武装侵略。
• European wildcat, marginalized by hunting and human encroachment, pauses during a daylight hunt in Moldova.
  一只受到打猎与人类侵犯而备受排斥的欧洲野猫在摩尔多瓦白天猪食时间小憩下。
• The problem was to safeguard sites from encroachment by property development.
  问题是要保护遗址免受房地产开发商的侵占。
• Iran's role in Western strategy was to pose a barrier to Soviet encroachment that could not be surmounted short of all-out invasion.
  伊朗在西方战略中的作用是对苏联的侵犯构成一道屏障，除非全力入侵，否则无法逾越。
• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
  自由最大的危险潜藏于热情、善意但没有良好理解力的人们的隐伏的侵蚀中。
• It's a sign of the encroachment of commercialism in medicine
  这是医药界被逐渐商业化的一个的征兆。
• Such visible signs of Chinese encroachment will feed the worries of many Europeans.
  这些可见的中国侵入的标识将会助长许多欧洲人的担忧。
• Those being given criminal penalties for the crime of bribery and embezzlement, malfeasance, or encroachment of property, or the crime of undermining the socialist market economic order;
  因犯有贪污贿赂、渎职、侵犯财产罪或者破坏社会主义市场经济秩序罪，被判处刑罚的；
• Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties.
  又因为其总是以至高重要性的面目出现，所以调用安全“需要”来使侵犯公民自由变得正当化就成了一种诱惑。
• In the Holy Land local churches are caught between Israeli encroachment on their property and Islamist bids to monopolise Palestinian life.
  在耶路撒冷圣地，当地的教堂受到两方面的夹击：以色列人对基督教财产的侵蚀和巴勒斯坦人独占耶路撒冷的要求。