釋義
Something that impinges on you affects you to some extent.
例句
Events in one country inevitably impinge on others, particularly because of the advances in communications technology.
GRE
In her novels, Woolf is deeply engaged by the questions of how individuals are shaped (or deformed) by their social environments, how historical forces impinge on people’s lives, how class, wealth, and gender help to determine people’s fates.
在Woolf的小說中,她十分癡迷于個體是如何被社會環(huán)境定義(或扭曲)的,歷史的發(fā)展如何對個人生活產生影響,以及人們的命運如何被階級、財富和性別所決定。