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

• 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。
• It should be remembered that in the late 1940s the US rejected the creation of an international trade organisation because of fears of encroachment on national sovereignty.
  人们应记得，上世纪40年代末，由于担心国家主权受到侵犯，美国曾拒绝建立一个国际性的贸易组织。
• India is highly sensitive to Chinese encroachment on its borders.
  印度对中国在边境地区的动作极为敏感。
• Both the film and the book depict the encroachment of the Han Chinese population on the Mongol plains, which leads to the killing off of the wolves and the gradual destruction of the grasslands.
  影片和书中都描写了汉族人口对蒙古平原的侵入，导致狼群被杀，草原逐渐遭到破坏。
• 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。
• Educational unfairness is a direct encroachment of our children's equal right to receive education.
  受教育权在我国是一种宪法性权利。
• 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。
• Commercial banks should protect the legal rights and interests of their depositors against encroachment by any unit and individual.
  商业银行应当保障存款人的合法权益不受任何单位和个人的侵犯。
• 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。
• 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。