Encounter



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 遭遇
• ［英］ v. 遭遇 ( meet oneself faced by sth / sb unpleasant, dangerous, difficult, etc)
• ［类］ 反义词: circumvent ( 躲避)
• ［例］ I encountered many difficulties when I first started this job.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (encountered; encountering)

• Etymology: Middle English encountren, from Anglo-French encuntrer, from Medieval Latin incontrare, from Late Latin incontra toward, from Latin in- + contra against — more at counter
• Date: 14th century
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to meet as an adversary or enemy
    • b. to engage in conflict with
  • 2. to come upon face-to-face
  • 3. to come upon or experience especially unexpectedly <encounter difficulties>
• intransitive verb
  • to meet especially by chance

II. noun

• Date: 14th century
• 1. a meeting between hostile factions or persons ; a sudden often violent clash <an encounter between the police and demonstrators>
• 2.
  • a. a chance meeting <an accidental encounter>
  • b. a particular kind of meeting or experience with another person <a romantic encounter>
• 3. a coming into the vicinity of a celestial body <the Martian encounter of a spacecraft>

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