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

• To protect individual interests, property rights must be defended from illegitimate encroachment by the state.
  为了保护个人利益，财产权必须保护来自国家非法侵占。
• The news comes amid new evidence of the rapid encroachment of the internet into the public's shopping habits.
  与此同时，有新的证据表明互联网迅速影响了公众的购物习惯。
• He says desert encroachment could cause widespread hunger.
  他说，沙漠侵蚀可以造成广泛的饥饿。
• 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。
• The obvious aim of such a reconstruction is to protect macroeconomics from the encroachment of the methods and habits of the mathematician.
  重建经济学的目的，显然是保护宏观经济学不受数学家方法和习性的侵蚀。
• 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。
• 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。
• I believe that they will be even bigger than the euro itself because they are a significant encroachment on national sovereignty on several levels.
  我认为，它们的影响甚至会超过欧元本身，因为它们在多个层面严重侵蚀了国家主权。
• Human encroachment on these natural sites could also increase the risk of contact with diseased animals.
  人类入侵这些自然地点还可能增加与生病动物接触的风险。
• 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。