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

• 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。
• Many business leaders object to what they regard as the growing encroachment by the state and other interest groups on their ability to run the company.
  许多商界领袖认为，政府和其它利益集团正日益削弱他们经营公司的能力，他们反对这种现象。
• 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。
• 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。
• Discuss the similarities and differences, and how they affect the adaptiveness of each species, particularly in view of human encroachment into their habitats.
  讨论其相似和差别，又他们如何怎影响每个物种的适应性，特别是当人类侵入它们的栖息地时。
• Instead, it looked suspiciously like an attempt to defend a popular local brand after a vigorous internet campaign opposing Coke's encroachment.
  相反，它看上去十分可疑，像是在试图保护一个受欢迎的本土品牌。做出该裁定前，中国网民积极发起了反对可口可乐蚕食汇源的运动。
• 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。
• Authority of illicit of property ownership system is divine it is the sufficient protection that shows the civil rights of civil main body gets law, do not suffer anybody and the encroachment of any influence, not comply unlimited or proper legal order is privative.
  财产所有权制度私权神圣是指民事主体的民事权利受法律的充分保护，不受任何人以及任何权力的侵犯，不依正当的法律程序不受限制或剥夺。
• 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。