encroach是什么意思

短语搭配

(1)encroach on侵占；蚕食；僭越

双语例句

(1)You've encroached on my personal life.

你已经侵犯了我的个人生活。

(2)He was sued for encroaching upon privacy.

他因侵犯隐私而被起诉。

(3)The cold encroaches on the body of the homeless.

寒冷蚕食着流浪者的身体。

(4)The growing town soon encroached on the surrounding countryside.

这个不断扩大的城市不久便侵占了周围的农村 变成了市区

(5)I won't encroach on your time any longer.

我不会再占用你的时间了。

(6)He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.

他从不让工作扰乱他的家庭生活。

(7)The new institutions do not encroach on political power.

这些新机构没有侵犯到政治权力。

(8)Traditionally men have compartmentalized their lives, never letting their personal lives encroach upon their professional lives.

过去，男人把他们的生活分开，不会让个人生活干扰职业生活。

(9)She has no right to encroach on my time.

她没有权利占用我的时间。

同义词

vi. 侵占；蚕食；侵蚀

vt. 侵犯

同根词

词根 encroach

(1)encroaching adj. 渐渐渗入的

(2)encroachment n. 侵入，侵犯；侵蚀

释义

v.

intrude on (a person's territory or a thing considered to be a right)

侵占，侵害，侵犯（某人的地盘或权限）

rather than encroach on his privacy she might have kept to her room.

她本来可以呆在自己的房间里而不去侵犯他的隐私。

advance gradually and in a way that causes damage

侵蚀

the sea has encroached all round the coast.

海水侵蚀了整个海岸。

词源

"late Middle English （in the sense　‘obtain unlawfully, seize'; formerly also as incroach ）： from Old French encrochier ‘seize, fasten upon', from en-　‘in, on' + crochier （from croc ‘hook', from Old Norse krókr ）."