| 英语单词 | infest |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ɪn'fest] 美 [ɪn'fest] |
| 中文释义 | v.侵扰;猖獗;寄生于 |
| 英语例句 | (1) There is a warehouse infested by rats. (2) It's a garden infested with weeds. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 那有一个大批老鼠出没的仓库。 (2) 这是杂草丛生的花园。 |
| vocabulary简明 | The verb infest means to invade in large number, often resisting control and causing damage or hardship. Bedbugs can infest people's belongings and even their bodies, or mice may infest your kitchen if you leave the cheese out too often. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Infest comes from Latin: in- means "not" and festus means "able to be seized." So infest describes something is not able to be seized, typically because it's present in such large numbers. For example, mosquitoes may infest your backyard during the summer and annoy you when you're trying to relax. Infest is usually used to describe pests, such as bugs or rodents, that overrun something in such large number that they are difficult to control. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词](昆虫、老鼠等)大批出没于,侵扰 When creatures such as insects or rats infest plants or a place, they are present in large numbers and cause damage. [V n]
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2 [VERB 动词]遍布于;充斥 If you say that people or things you disapprove of or regard as dangerous are infesting a place, you mean that there are large numbers of them in that place. [V n] [disapproval]
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