【approach音标】 英[əˈprəʊtʃ] 美[əˈproʊtʃ]
【单词释义】 approach是什么意思：
v.(在距离或时间上)靠近，接近;接洽;建议;要求;(在数额、水平或质量上)接近
n.(待人接物或思考问题的)方式，方法，态度;(距离和时间上的)靠近，接近;接洽;建议;要求
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[单词复数] approaches [第三人称单数] approaches
[单词现在分词] approaching
[单词过去式] approached
[单词过去分词] approached
【approach形近词/近似词】
poach v.水煮，炖，煨；偷猎；窃取，盗用
coach n.教练 v.训练；辅导；指导
encroach v.侵犯；侵占；蚕食；侵蚀
reproach vt.责备，责骂；指责；批评；自责 n.责备；批评；责备的话语；丢脸，耻辱
【单词例句】
◇ He stepped into the parlor, and when he approached the bed, he saw the wolf lying there. "So here I find you, you old sinner," he said. "I have been hunting for you a long time."
猎人进了屋，来到床前时却发现躺在那里的竟是狼。“你这老坏蛋，我找了你这么久，真没想到在这里找到你！”他说。
---- Little Red Cap
◇ “I will fly to them, the royal birds, and they will hack me to pieces because I who am so ugly venture to approach them. But it won’t matter. Better to be killed by them than be snacked up by the ducks, pecked by the hens, or spurned by the hen wife, or suffer so much misery in the winter.”
“我要飞向他们，飞向这些高贵的鸟儿！可是他们会把我劈碎的，因为我是这样丑，居然敢接近他们。不过这没有什么关系！被他们杀死，要比被鸭子咬、被鸡群啄，被看管养鸡场的那个女佣人踢和在冬天受苦好得多！”
---- The Ugly Duckling
◇ A whirring sound was heard in the air, and twelve ravens approached, landing together. As they touched the earth, it was her twelve brothers, whom she had redeemed.
空中传来了一阵呼啦呼啦的声音，十二只乌鸦飞到这里落了下来。牠们刚落地就变成了王后的十二个哥哥。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ When the prince approached the thorn hedge, it was nothing but large, beautiful flowers that separated by themselves, allowing him to pass through without harm, but then behind him closed back into a hedge.
所以当王子来到树篱丛时，他看到的全是盛开着美丽花朵的灌木，他很轻松地就穿过了树篱。随着他在前面走，身后树篱又密密地合拢了。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ After the flight arrived, I saw a man looking around curiously. So I approached to greet him.
当他的航班到达时，我看见一名男子好奇地东张西望，于是走上前去和他打招呼。
---- A Misunderstanding
◇ Accompanied by a select number of officers of the court, among whom were the two honest men who had already admired the cloth, he went to the crafty impostors, who, as soon as they were aware of the Emperor's approach, went on working more diligently than ever; although they still did not pass a single thread through the looms.
他选了一群特别圈定的随员——其中包括已经去看过的那两位诚实的大臣。这样，他就到那两个狡猾的骗子住的地方去。这两个家伙正以全副精神织布，但是一根线的影子也看不见。
◇ Scientists say it's difficult to know whether there's a limit to the number of people the planet can sustain — or when we could be approaching it. Still, according to Bradshaw, the 7.7 billion people who inhabit Earth now may already be pushing the planet to a breaking point.
科学家表示，很难知道地球能承受的人口上限，或者何时会接近上限。不过，据布拉德肖说，现在居住在地球上的77亿人可能已经把地球推向了崩溃的边缘。
---- World's population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100
◇ One day he had gone into the forest to gather wood, where he was approached by an old man, whom he had never seen before, and who said, "Why do you torment yourself with chopping wood? I will make you rich if you will promise me that which is standing behind your mill."
有一天，他到森林里去砍柴，一个他从没见过的老头走近前来对他说：“你何苦这么辛苦地砍柴呀？只要你答应把你磨房后的东西给我，我就让你过富人的日子。”