词组 | infiltrate |
释义 | infiltrate When infiltrate is used with a preposition, into is by far the one used most often: • ... political agents are known to be infiltrating into Chilean army and conservative circles —Atlantic, February 1944 • ... the discovery by man that only ... in self-consciously infiltrating himself into the harmony of the universe—is the peace which he seeks to be accomplished —Saturday Rev., 1 Mar. 1952 • ... many Hebrew idioms have infiltrated, in translated forms, into the various Jewish dialects —William Chomsky, Hebrew: The Eternal Language, 1957 • ... police undercover agents cannot infiltrate into the inbred, closely-knit Mafia —Times Literary Supp., 14 May 1970 • ... how much of a force they had in reserve as opposed to the force they had infiltrated into the South —David Halberstam, Harper's, February 1971 Occasionally, infiltrate may be found with to: • They tend rather to infiltrate to supply lines and rear installations —Cavalry Jour., November-December 1942 • Another complete failure followed—this time in a step-ladder factory to which his father had infiltrated him —English Digest, May 1953 When the object names the one doing the infiltrating, infiltrate is also used with with or by: • ... there will be efforts to infiltrate the bandits with police operatives —Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 1952 • ... one radical organization decided to infiltrate his class with a kungfu fighter —Tom Wolfe, New York, 21 Sept. 1971 • ... a language that has become infiltrated by patterns and loan words from English —R. Somerville Graham, Word, December 1956 Less frequently and in various relations, infiltrate is used with through, among, or from: • ... it will be next to impossible to keep the Reds from infiltrating through any dividing line —Newsweek, 17 May 1954 • They learn how to keep out of the street itself (it's a deathtrap) and how to infiltrate instead from house to house —Newsweek, 22 Mar. 1943 • ... the salt water trickles down on the rocks; steam rises. The salt steam infiltrates among the clams — Hugh Cave, New England Journeys, 1953 In technical use the choice of prepositions used with infiltrate is even wider: the military does not restrict itself to into, to or through; use of toward or within also occurs: • ... a momentary glimpse of Guillermo's section to our left, infiltrating rapidly toward the rise —Alvah Bessie, Men in Battle, 1939 • ... one or two lone infantrymen ... could infiltrate within rifle range and quickly kill the gun crew — Coast Artillery Jour., September-October 1942 |
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