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2004.08.05
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What makes a country a country? Well, one thing is the right to be left alone by other countries - something called "sovereignty". And it's this basic right that is taken away from a country when today's WordMaster occurs.
INVADE 侵略する
- To invade a city, country, etc. is to enter it using force in order to take control of it.
An invasion is an event of this kind. - invade は、武力に訴えて都市や国家に入り込み、その地域を支配する――つまり、侵略する、という意味です。
名詞形は、invasion で、侵略という意味です。
- Napoleon wanted to invade England, but he was never able to do it.
- Orson Welles' radio drama "The War of the Worlds" made many people believe that Martians (= creatures from Mars) were invading the planet.
- Britain and France went to war with Germany after the invasion of Poland.
- The Normandy Invasion is known as D-Day.
- Many Hollywood movies in the 1950s were about alien invasions.
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