释义

　　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的小说中，她十分痴迷于个体是如何被社会环境定义(或扭曲)的，历史的发展如何对个人生活产生影响，以及人们的命运如何被阶级、财富和性别所决定。