Invasion

(noun.) the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder.

(noun.) (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body; 'the tumor's invasion of surrounding structures'.

(noun.) any entry into an area not previously occupied; 'an invasion of tourists'; 'an invasion of locusts'.

编辑:玛杰里

• All the troops in service could be brought to the front to contest every inch of ground threatened with invasion. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It was certainly the act of an insane man to attempt the invasion of the South, and the overthrow of slavery, with less than twenty men. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Sir Leicester looks on at this invasion of the sacred precincts with an icy stare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• By folk the good ladies of course mean themselves, for indeed they are kept in a continual fry by this system of mutual invasion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He was to advance up the valley, covering the North from an invasion through that channel as well while advancing as by remaining near Harper's Ferry. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• In a few armies since the Tartar's first invasion of the West were men executed summarily for as little reason as they were under his command. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• We then became the Army of Invasion. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The invasion of the unknown is of the nature of an adventure; we cannot be sure in advance. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I put up some of my books; I should not want them all; I sat and thought; and waitedinvoluntarily deprecating the creeping invasion of twilight. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Just as in the west, so now in the east, an invasion became a social revolution. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They built a wall between them and the world--Without, a thousand harpies raved, remorse and misery, expecting the destined moment for their invasion. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• With each invasion first this and then that section of the Semitic peoples comes into history. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The book of Numbers takes up the wanderings of the Israelites in the desert and their invasion of Canaan. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The author, by an extraordinary stratagem, prevents an invasion. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The Ottoman Turks were a little band of fugitives who fled southwesterly before the first invasion of Western Turkestan by Jengis. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Kingship received an impetus from the Persian and Greek invasions of the Punjab. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But each of such swarmings still leaves a tribal nucleus behind to supply fresh invasions in the future. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Whenever governments enter upon foreign invasions in order to avoid civil wars, the same trick is practiced. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The barbarians in the case of Rome and in the case of China made similar invasions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But only the second of these invasions was a permanent conquest and settlement. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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