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invasion

/in-vey-zhuhn/US // ɪnˈveɪ ʒən //UK // (ɪnˈveɪʒən) //

入侵,入侵事件,入侵行为,进攻

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
    • : the entrance or advent of anything troublesome or harmful, as disease.
    • : entrance as if to take possession or overrun: the annual invasion of the resort by tourists.
    • : infringement by intrusion.

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Examples

  • Over three books, author Liu Cixin tells the story of the ultimate betrayal of humanity by a group of people who invite an alien invasion of Earth.

  • The Kremlin, in neighboring Russia, has recognized Lukashenko’s victory and promised to uphold its treaty and defend Belarus from a foreign invasion … which caused many to fear Lukashenko would blame the protests on foreign adversaries.

  • Beyond all the ways that proctoring software can discriminate against students, algorithmic proctoring is also a significant invasion of privacy.

  • The use of these tools is an invasion of students’ privacy and, often, a civil rights violation.

  • Everything from actually an invasion to different possibilities that would not put our troops on the ground.

  • Figuring how to train Iraqi forces has dogged the United States since the 2003 invasion.

  • He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions.

  • One lefty tweeter even complained that an invasion of icky American tourists would undermine “family values” in Cuba.

  • Hikmatullah Shadman started working for American Special Forces teams in 2002 after the invasion that toppled the Taliban.

  • And Western capitals sought to play down the Russian invasion.

  • Spain is at war with North America, and now offers us this sugar-plum to draw us to her side to defend her against invasion.

  • Wright and his followers regard the opsonic index as an index of the power of the body to combat bacterial invasion.

  • So dies the invasion of England bogey which, from first to last, has wrought us an infinity of harm.

  • Some other stimulus to our Territorial recruiting than the fear of invasion will have to be invented in future.

  • At the English invasion of 1296, they would both be vigorous young men of twenty-two, or thereabouts.