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单词 encounter
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encounter
(ɪnkntəʳ )
Word forms: encounters , encountering , encountered
1. verb B2
If you encounter problems or difficulties, you experience them.
Every day of our lives we encounter stresses of one kind or another. [VERB noun]
Thousands of customers have encountered problems. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: experience, meet, face, suffer  
2. verb
If you encounter someone, you meet them, usually unexpectedly. [formal]
Did you encounter anyone in the building? [VERB noun]
Renata wrote him that she had encountered her long-estranged father. [VERB noun]
3. countable noun
An encounter with someone is a meeting with them, particularly one that is unexpected or significant.
...offering supporters the chance to win an encounter with the President in return for any size of donation. [+ with]
Synonyms: battle, fight, action, conflict  
4. countable noun
An encounter is a particular type of experience.
...a sexual encounter.
She was not the only person to feel daunted by her encounter with the court. [+ with]
Collocations:
encounter a situation
The individual may encounter a situation in which he or she has to choose one group over another.
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What performer or public speaker hasn't encountered a situation where they had to continue no matter what?
The Sun
When the person with such schemas encounters a situation that resembles the original conditions of the learned schema in some way, the negative schemas of the person are activated.
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encounter a variety of
Marine biologists encounter a variety of working conditions.
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They encounter a variety of habitats because of their migratory tendencies.
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I have encountered a variety of responses to my decision to take extended paternity leave.
Times, Sunday Times
During the course of the game, the player encounters a variety of environments, including planet surfaces, caverns, enemy ships, and space stations.
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Throughout the country one encounters a variety of mat making traditions using indigenously grown materials and embellishing these creations with highly imaginative designs.
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encounter an obstacle
Anyone looking to pick up more modestly priced works of art may encounter an obstacle - a snooty gallery owner questioning you about what pieces you already own.
Times, Sunday Times
Choosing another multiple after four will make the four multiples to move around the spacecraft until they encounter an obstacle and stop revolving.
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Whoever wants to face these consequences in the form of emigration will not encounter any obstacle.
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After a period during which it's seemed that, whatever you did or decided, somebody objected or you encountered an obstacle, you're feeling a bit disheartened.
Times, Sunday Times
These sensors send a signal that will be reflected back when it encounters an obstacle near the vehicle.
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encounter frequently
One encountered frequently among ordinary people bitter hostility to writers...
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Male panthers will not be encountered frequently during this time, as female and male panthers generally avoid each other outside of breeding.
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In this section, a number of important barriers to persons being able to love that are encountered frequently in clinical practice will be discussed.
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encounter opposition
By implementing realistic and achievable targets, you should not encounter opposition from your staff.
Times, Sunday Times
Often, activists encounter opposition from family and friends alike.
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The school has already encountered opposition from local villagers.
Times, Sunday Times
His talent was for creative ideas, a determination to see them realised, and a refusal to be put off when he encountered opposition.
Times, Sunday Times
Plans for a 72-floor skyscraper have been transformed into a 14-floor cube after encountering opposition from local campaigners.
Times, Sunday Times
encounter resistance
It means going against the stream of cultural values even when you encounter resistance.
Christianity Today
I often encounter resistance to evangelism based on a person's unpleasant experience with a particular evangelistic method.
Christianity Today
The company continues to encounter resistance in markets around the world.
Times, Sunday Times
He will encounter resistance but a more efficient, better targeted system will be worth the fight.
Times, Sunday Times
Its prescriptions will encounter resistance.
Times, Sunday Times
face-to-face encounter
Cracking it is sometimes more vivid than a face-to-face encounter.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
And it is transforming the previously humble face-to-face encounter into a thing of potentially explosive incompetence.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
A good 3in heel provides a reasonable face-to-face encounter with people who matter.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
fateful encounter
They begin to shadow him, composing a fantastical biography for him that eventually leads one of the students into what might become a fateful encounter.
Times, Sunday Times
But a fateful encounter with a young chef awakens something within her.
Times, Sunday Times
However, the 'fateful encounter' needed to create intelligent life from two simple life forms vastly reduces the odds of any extraterrestrial squeezing its way through this evolutionary bottleneck.
Times, Sunday Times
The friend, a freelance printer, spoke to me after the fateful encounter and expressed his interest in finding more work, and especially in building up his portfolio of e-books.
The Times Literary Supplement
memorable encounter
Your most memorable encounter today could be with a sports expert.
The Sun
Certainly, he was involved in some of its most memorable encounters between the ropes.
Times, Sunday Times
Alas, the king's choice of route for his most memorable encounters do not survive.
Times, Sunday Times
Over the past decade and a half, three memorable encounters have shaped my football education.
Times, Sunday Times
Sailing through them brings endless memorable encounters and experiences.
Times, Sunday Times
personal encounter
In short, the current prospects for debt forgiveness offer no personal encounter, no reconciliation among rich and poor, either within countries or internationally.
Christianity Today
These organizations provide the context of personal encounter in which debtors and creditors can practice faithfulness to their commitments.
Christianity Today
They are here today because they want to communicate rumba to outsiders in a more personal encounter.
Times, Sunday Times
In other words, it's lean: it's very much a drama of personal encounter and confrontation.
Times, Sunday Times
This was my first and last personal encounter with crack.
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random encounter
Most life-changing decisions are likely to have been prompted by a random encounter with a stranger or advice from a friend of a friend.
Times, Sunday Times
Upon the player walking over a hot spot, there's a chance of a random encounter.
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However, the random encounter system has been improved.
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The sequel contains both new and returning characters, and the gameplay has been updated so as to remove the random encounter feature.
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The game features random encounter battles, and the player's progress can be saved anytime, except during battle, by using the select button.
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romantic encounter
He enjoyed his first romantic encounter with a nurse.
Times, Sunday Times
I looked across to the lagoon where capybara were trotting eagerly along the banks in pursuit of another romantic encounter.
Times, Sunday Times
He was 'all over her' like 'a rash' in their first romantic encounter.
Times, Sunday Times
What to wear for possibly, maybe, my first romantic encounter?
Times, Sunday Times
Their graceful dance attracted the envious eyes of all the other dancers and a picture was taken of this romantic encounter, suspending it in time.
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strange encounter
She had a strange encounter at the railway station.
Times, Sunday Times
Once there she struggles with insomnia and has a strange encounter with a film star.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a strange encounter.
Times, Sunday Times
She then reviews her own strange encounter with the married state.
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Yet the dispatches he sends back, collected in this quirky and immensely entertaining book, are not the usual travelogue fare: he seeks silence and solitude rather than strange encounters.
Times, Sunday Times
subsequent encounter
That subsequent encounter scared him.
Times, Sunday Times
Little by little, in subsequent encounters, that person will start to reveal himself.
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Adaptive (or acquired) immunity creates immunological memory after an initial response to a specific pathogen, leading to an enhanced response to subsequent encounters with that same pathogen.
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survive an encounter
It cannot long survive an encounter with social media.
canada.com
The plan did not survive an encounter with reality.
Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, one sheep didn't survive the encounter.
Times, Sunday Times
They duel each other, but survive the encounter.
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Though outnumbered, the squadron survived the encounter with no losses.
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unexpected encounter
The unexpected encounter causes an armed standoff that lasts for several days.
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He remained as resident carillonneur for 8 years until an unexpected encounter with a stranger occurred.
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Instead, focus on new ideas, unexpected encounters and, especially, whatever or whoever makes you feel uncomfortable.
Times, Sunday Times
This triggered a cycle of review and exploration, fuelled by unexpected encounters and lively discussions.
Times, Sunday Times
Ironically, both what you learn and unexpected encounters could prove helpful when sudden events demand you think and act swiftly.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 遭遇, 遭遇
Japanese: 直面する問題・困難に, 遭遇
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