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To accost someone is to go towards a person you do not know and start speaking in a way that feels unwelcome, , or even a little threatening. The old picture is standing at their side; the modern feeling is often sharper: the other person did not ask to talk. The speaker may be a stranger in the street, a who will not let you pass, or a reporter pushing a microphone. The word is a little formal and a little dark. Friends do not accost each other; they come over and say hello. News writing likes it because the unwelcome edge is already in the verb. There is a rare noun, but students can ignore it: the living word is the verb.
上前攔人攀談（常有被攔住、不歡迎的感覺；不是台灣口語裡調情的「搭訕」）
組成From Middle French accoster, from Old French acoster (‘to stand beside’), from a- + coste (‘side, flank’).
同家族的字
- coastboth from Old French coste ‘side’ — to accost is to come to someone's side; the coast is the side of the land
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
accostverb/əˈkɔst/
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To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
- A beggar accosted me as soon as I stepped outside.
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obsoleteTo join side to side; to border.
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obsoleteTo sail along the coast or side of.
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obsoleteTo approach; to come up to.
- You mistake, knight. ‘Accost’ is front / her, board her, woo her, assail her.
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To speak to first; to address; to greet.
- Him, Satan thus accosts.
- She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."
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obsoleteTo adjoin; to lie alongside.
- For all the Shores, which to the Sea accost
- Lapland hath since been often surrounded (so much as accosts the sea) by the English.
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To assault.
- The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.
- Surveillance video of the incident shows the man and woman being accosted by a man armed with and assault-style handgun.
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To solicit sexually.
- Gladstone's initial tone of disinterested philanthropy also characterized his first encounters with prostitutes in London once he has moved there to undertake his parliamentary duties. Accosted in a London park in 1837 by two women, Gladstone merely reported of them that "both ... had taken to their miserable calling from losing their livelihood by the death of their husbands."
accostnoun/əˈkɔst/
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rareAddress; greeting.
- A man does not seize a woman by the sleeve and ask, "Is it you?" without some reason for an address so destitute of ordinary courtesy; and Lucilla was sufficiently versed in such matters to know that so rude and startling an accost could be only addressed to some one whose presence set the speaker's heart beating, and quickened the blood in his veins.
- Anne liked to accost foreigners in their own tongue , but , being ignorant of Spanish , asked M. de Grignaux to teach her a sentence of polite accost in his own language, wherewith to welcome an ambassador from Spain.
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An attack.
- At last, when I was already within reach of her, I stopped. Words were denied me; if I advanced I could but clasp her to my heart in silence; and all that was sane in me, all that was still unconquered, revolted against the thought of such an accost.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。