| 词组 | encroach |
| 释义 | encroach When used with a preposition, encroach is usually used with on or upon: • Today, the enemy is vague, the work seems done,... the expert encroaches on the artist —Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, 1959 • ... groups of houses encroaching suddenly upon the desolation of the marshland —William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, 1951 Occasionally encroach is used with into, onto, and to: • ... the building originally encroached into Nassau County —Michael Kramer, New York, 2 Sept. 1974 • ... burnt-out cars had been dragged to the gutters, sometimes encroaching up onto the sidewalk — James Jones, Harper's, February 1971 • ... fishermen encroached closer and closer to the Alaskan waters —Frank Abbott Magruder, National Governments and International Relations, 1950 |
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