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Change log entry 58368
Processed by: richwarm (2015-07-26 22:17:30 UTC)
Comment: << review queue entry 54384 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
invade AND attack?
That's pretty awkward.
Perhaps we can do better.
It's often natural phenomena such as typhoons or insects that are the subject of this verb.

今夏,當媒體焦點都集中在遭賀伯颱風嚴重侵襲的南投縣與阿里山區 <--- (ABC's "make a sneak attack" doesn't work well here, assuming the meteorologists knew it was coming)
This summer, while media attention was focused on the devastation wrought by Typhoon Herb in Nantou County and the Mt. Ali area

卻無法抵擋小小線蟲的侵襲。
it may be no match for the onslaught of a tiny nematode worm.

入秋後,一葉蘭葉片不耐秋霜侵襲,陸續轉黃
When autumn comes, the pleiones' leaves succumb to the frosts and gradually turn yellow.

無形的「熱污染」也由四面八方侵襲而來
[But if there is excess CO2 trapping too much heat in the atmosphere, the result is] inescapable "heat pollution."

after being hammered by lightning storms and heavy rain.
歷經雷火與豪雨侵襲

一九一八年,「西班牙流行性感冒」侵襲全球
In 1918, toward the end of World War I, the Spanish flu swept the world

過去為了防範原住民侵襲
To prevent incursions by Aboriginal tribes

在登革熱侵襲南台灣時
When dengue fever was attacking southern Taiwan
Diff:
- 侵襲 侵袭 [qin1 xi2] /to invade and attack/
# + 侵襲 侵袭 [qin1 xi2] /to invade and attack/
+ 侵襲 侵袭 [qin1 xi2] /to invade/to assail/onslaught/
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