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Infest Large Ed Infested Means Present Verb 动词

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]
  • ...pests like aphids which infest cereal crops.

    像蚜虫这样大肆侵害谷物的害虫

infested
  • The prison is infested with rats...

    监狱里老鼠猖獗。

  • In less than seven days the infested plants had recovered.

    不到7天时间,受虫害侵袭的植物就复原了。

-infested
  • ...the rat-infested slums where the plague flourished.

    瘟疫横行、鼠患猖獗的贫民窟

infestation
  • The premises were treated for cockroach infestation...

    因蟑螂成灾,这些房屋集中进行了灭蟑活动。

  • Parts of California are suffering from an infestation of oriental fruit flies.

    加利福尼亚的部分地区正遭受东方果蝇的大肆侵袭。

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]
  • Crime and drugs are infesting the inner cities.

    市中心充斥着犯罪与毒品。

infested
  • The road further south was infested with bandits.

    这条路再往南更远些的地方有很多土匪出没。

-infested
  • ...the shark-infested waters of the Great Barrier Reef.

    鲨鱼大量出没的大堡礁水域

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