infest
infest 英 [ɪnˈfest] 美 [ɪnˈfɛst]
vt. 骚扰；寄生于；大批出没；大批滋生
进行时:infesting 过去式:infested 过去分词:infested 第三人称单数:infests
- 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.
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- vt. 骚扰；寄生于；大批出没；大批滋生
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1. There’s a fitting analogy between the digital world of data and the physical environment we live in. Bad data is like trash: pollutants that infest the environment.
数据的数字世界和我们所处的自然环境之间有一个相似之处，劣质的数据就像是一堆垃圾：遍布于环境中的污染物。
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2. The Zerg will start trying to infest the five other civilian settlements.
虫族将开始试图再加上另外五个平民的定居点。
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3. His accomplishment could produce synthetic biology's first big commercial success by attacking the biofilms that infest industrial equipment.
他的成果可能是人工合成生物技术第一次成功的大规模应用，用来破坏遍布于工业设备上的生物膜。
- infest (v.) late 15c., "to attack, assail, hurt, distress, annoy," from Old French infester (14c.), from Latin infestare "to attack, disturb, trouble," from infestus "unsafe, hostile, threatening, dangerous," originally "inexorable, not able to be handled," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + -festus, perhaps "(able to be) seized" (see manifest (adj.)). Sense of "swarm over in large numbers, attack parasitically" first recorded c. 1600. Related: Infested; infesting.
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