infect

英 [ɪn'fekt] 美 [ɪn'fekt]

• vt. 传染；感染

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. (受)传染

   put disease into the body of

2. vt. 污染

   make air, food, etc. impure

3. vt. 影响

   make sb have feelings of the same type

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 【医】传染，感染，散布病毒，使携带病菌
2. 污染，使腐化
3. 使受影响
4. 患病
5. 使存储器受到感染

英英释义

Verb:

1. communicate a disease to;

   "Your children have infected you with this head cold"
   

2. contaminate with a disease or microorganism

3. corrupt with ideas or an ideology;

   "society was infected by racism"
   

4. affect in a contagious way;

   "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. The open wound soon became infected.
   裸露的伤口很快就受到了感染。
2. The flu virus infected almost the entire class.
   全班几乎人人都染上了流行性感冒病毒。
3. There is a virus that infects word-processing documents recently.
   最近有种病毒专门传染WORD文件。
4. Her cheerful spirits and bubble laughter infect the whole class.
   她那快乐的情绪和爽朗的笑声感染了全班。
5. The young teacher infected the whole class with her enthusiasm.
   这位年轻的老师以她的热诚感染了全班。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. I didn't pay attention to it because I never infected.
   我对它根本不注意,因为我从不受传染。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. Anyone with a bad cold may infect the people around him.
   任何重感冒都可能把疾病传染给周围的人。
2. The spreading disease infected her eyes, and she became blind.
   她双目染疾,完全失明了。
3. Waste gases infected the air.
   废气污染了空气。
4. The captain's courage infected his soldiers.
   上尉的勇气感染了他的士兵。
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5. I didn't pay attention to it because I am never infected.
   我对它根本不注意,因为我从不受传染。
6. The open wound soon became infected.
   敞露的伤口很快受到了感染。
7. The whole room was infected by the smell of coal.
   整个房间都有烟油味。
8. Whole societies become infected by these vices.
   整个社会都被这些恶习所腐蚀。

其他

1. It was bold of a man to walk through hundreds of miles of lion infected country with nothing but a spear in his hand.
   一个人除了一根长矛什么都不带而只身走过几百里狮子出没的地区真是勇敢。

经典引文

• Every cut became infected and had to be scrubbed with hot water.

  出自： P. Theroux

• The tuberculosis that infected, and finally killed, all of his children.

  出自： E. Feinstein

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

infect with (v.+prep.)

使…充满(某种感情) fill (sb) with (a feeling)

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

• infect easily 易感染

～+介词

• be infected with 受到…的影响,染上…病
• be infected with cholera 染上霍乱
• infect sb with a theory 用一种理论影响某人

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. infect的基本意思是“传染”“污染”。引申可作“影响”解。可以是有意地,也可以是无意地。
2. infect可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词或代词作宾语。用作不及物动词时主动结构常含有被动意义。
3. infect后面常接with表示“把…传染给…”或“使…充满某种感情”。

近反义词

【近义词】

• contaminate 弄脏
• pollute 污染
• poison 毒药
• corrupt 腐败的
• influence 影响
• taint 污点
• disease 疾病
• communicate 传达
• blight 枯萎病
• pervert 误用
• defile 弄脏
• deprave 使堕落
• debase 降低质量、地位或价值...
• affect 影响
• afflict 使苦恼
• touch 触摸
• inspire 鼓舞
• move 移动
• infuse 注入

【反义词】

• disinfect 消毒