| 词组 | infest |
| 释义 | infest When infest is used with a preposition, the choice is most often with: • ... a little hotel ... infested with congressmen, judges, and statesmen —The Autobiography of William Allen White, 1946 • ... a brisk, gorsy, suburban place infested with fox terriers and healthy children —Anthony West, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 1951 • ... a division's command post ... in an apple orchard infested with snipers —A. J. Liebling, New Yorker, 10 Dec. 1955 Less frequently, infest is used with by: • ... the dockworkers union that was kicked out of the American Federation of Labor on charges that it was infested by racketeers —Wall Street Jour., 22 Sept. 1954 • ... her tenement was infested by rats and overpriced —New Yorker, 10 Dec. 1966 As may be seen in the examples given above, when infest is used with a preposition, the verb form is usually the past participle; exceptions, however, do occur: • ... I curse computers for infesting the language with terms like input, readout, and interface —Thomas H. Middleton, Saturday Rev., 1 Apr. 1978 |
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