When creatures such as insects or rats infest plants or a place, they are present in large numbers and cause damage.
例句
...pests like aphids which infest cereal crops.像蚜蟲這樣大肆侵害谷物的害蟲
VERB
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.
例句
Crime and drugs are infesting the inner cities.市中心充斥著犯罪與毒品。
英漢詞典釋義
vt.
害蟲、野獸大批出沒于
The back yard was infested by rats.后院里老鼠猖獗。
遍布于
Crime infests that poor neighbourhood.那個貧困街區(qū)犯罪猖獗。
英英詞典釋義
Verb
1. invade in great numbers;
"the roaches infested our kitchen"
2. occupy in large numbers or live on a host;
"the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"