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词源
源自中古英語 encrochen，源自古法語 encrochier (“占领”)，源自古法語 en- + croc (“钩子”)，源自日耳曼語族。详见crook。
读音
- /ɪŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/
- /ɛŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/
释义
抢占，占领，夺取
占有，侵占，侵犯；蚕食，侵蚀
Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 252d:I won't encroach on your time any longer.
我就不占用你的时间了。
He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.
他从不让工作占领他和家人的时间。
Gradually the negative feelings encroached into her work.
负面情绪渐渐地侵蚀她的工作。
词形与写法（3）
| 词形 | 标注 | 转写 |
|---|---|---|
| encroaches | third-person · singular · present | |
| encroaching | present · participle | |
| encroached | past · participle · 簡單過去時 |