[每日] incursion (n) 入侵
Word of the Day (Sunday November 30, 2008)
incursion \in-KUR-zhuhn; -shuhn\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/ff57q
1. a sudden attack; invasion, raid
2. a running or flowing in
Jerina's bulwarks failed to protect Bosnia from the last great
incursion against Europe from the East, the invasions of Ottoman
Turk armies into the southeastern corner of the continent
beginning in the fourteenth century.
-- Chuck Sudetic, Blood and Vengeance
Yet that brutal incursion proved a fatal miscalculation on
Brezhnev's part and the final turning point in the cold war.
-- Douglas Brinkley, The Unfinished Presidency
by 1432 "hostile attack," from Latin incursionem "a running
against," from incurrere
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