Front | incur |
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Pron | [ɪn'kɜːr] |
Back | 【incur】 v.遭遇 The explorers incurred great dangers when they tried to cross the rapids. 当那些探险者越过急流时,他们遭遇了很大的危险。 |
Vocab | incurmake oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to
To incur is to get or receive — and usually it's something you brought upon yourself. If you don't pay your credit card bills on time, you'll likely incur lots of fees and some serious debt. Generally, when you incur something, that something is undesirable. You can incur penalties, expenses, a parking ticket, or a friend’s wrath, for example. But it's pretty unlikely that you'd incur free tickets to the World Series. Frederick Douglass once famously said, “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." All forms of 'incur' will appear on average once every 448 pages. incur incurrence incurring incursion |
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