annexation
annexation 英 [ˌænek'seɪʃn] 美 [ˌænɛksˈeʃən]
n. 合并；附加物
名词复数:annexations
- If you're a big powerful country and you want to take over a smaller country, or a piece of it, you can simply occupy it with your army, a process known as annexation.
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- n. 合并；附加物
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1. Palestinians say such an annexation would effectively cut the West Bank in two.
巴勒斯坦人则认为这样的合并无疑将会把西岸地区一割为二。
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2. While apologizing for the annexation, Japan's government has not acknowledged the treaty was illegal - as many on the Korean peninsula contend.
朝鲜人指出“日韩合并条约”是非法的。 而日本政府虽然已经就吞并朝鲜半岛道歉，却没有承认那一条约是非法的。
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3. The publishers removed one part about India’s annexation of Sikkim in 1975 because they thought it might upset India.
出版商抽掉了一个有关印度1975年吞并锡金的章节，因为这样的内容会使感到不安。
- annexation (n.) 1610s, "that which is added;" 1620s, "union" (now obsolete); 1630s, "action of adding to the end or adding a smaller to a greater," from Medieval Latin annexiationem (nominative annexatio) "action of annexing," noun of action from past participle stem of annexare "to bind to," from ad "to" (see ad-) + nectere "to tie, bind" (from PIE root *ned- "to bind, tie"). The Middle English noun form was annexion "union; joining; territory acquired" (mid-15c.).
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