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irruption

/ih-ruhp-shuhn/US // ɪˈrʌp ʃən //

中断,干扰,干扰性,刺激

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
    • : Ecology. a sudden increase in an animal population.

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Examples

  • He made but one fierce and rapid irruption into the neighborhood of the "red sea," and returned sick and shuddering therefrom.

  • Came a great irruption of new social, religious, and political ideas into the general European mind.

  • By the retreat of Torstensohn, the Emperor was relieved from all fears of an irruption on the side of Bohemia.

  • The irruption of Bennie and Zephyr threatened disaster even to this forlorn hope.

  • Tamerlane made his irruption through this plain when he took and destroyed so many cities.