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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He says desert encroachment could cause widespread hunger.
  他说，沙漠侵蚀可以造成广泛的饥饿。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Encroachment on any enterprise run by the national bourgeoisie is strictly prohibited.
  一切民族资产阶级经营的企业，严禁侵犯。
• 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；
• 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。