infestations

英 [ˌɪnfɛsˈteɪʃənz]

美 [ˌɪnˌfɛˈsteɪʃənz]

n.  骚扰，侵袭，扰害，横行；（盗贼、鼠、虫等的）成群出现
infestation的复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB (昆虫、老鼠等)大批出没于,侵扰
  When creatures such as insects or ratsinfestplants or a place, they are present in large numbers and cause damage.
  1. ...pests like aphids which infest cereal crops.
     像蚜虫这样大肆侵害谷物的害虫
• VERB 遍布于;充斥
  If you say that people or things you disapprove of or regard as dangerousare infestinga place, you mean that there are large numbers of them in that place.
  1. Crime and drugs are infesting the inner cities.
     市中心充斥着犯罪与毒品。

双语例句

• The arrival of warm weather raises the spectre of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage.
  天气转暖使人们担心垃圾腐烂会引起疾病传播和鼠群猖獗。
• The worst problems with bedbug infestations are not physical, but psychological.
  臭虫带来的最大的问题不是身体上的，而是心理上的。
• Their pocket-size farm had been plagued with insect infestations.
  他们的超微型农场虫害频频。
• It's a rare person who has never had to deal with head lice with children being the most susceptible to infestations.
  这是一个罕见的人从来没有谁处理头虱与儿童是最容易受到侵袭。
• Combined with spraying, the basic period of time can bid farewell to termite infestations.
  结合喷的时间内基本可以告别白蚁的侵扰。
• It publishes the most current research on the microbiological aspects of human and animal infections and infestations, with emphasis on their diagnosis and epidemiology.
  该网站主要出版最新的关于侵染人和动物的微生物生物学的相关研究，主要集中在该类疾病的诊断与流行学上的研究。
• These pigs had acquired lungworm infestations presumably containing masked influenza virus under natural conditions.
  这些猪在自然条件下已受到含有隐蔽流感病毒的肺丝虫寄生。
• An anthelmintic used to treat hookworm and pinworm and roundworm infestations.
  包虫病棘球绦虫感染用来治疗十二指肠、蛲虫和蛔虫横行的杀虫。
• These conditions act in concert to produce a great potential for contaminants, pest organisms of plants from nature and windborne infestations to establish in the nursery stock.
  这些因素协同作用导致苗圃植株受自然界污染物、有害生物和风传病虫害侵染的可能性大大增加。
• This makes rats particularly susceptible to poisoning ( hence its popularity in controlling rat infestations).
  这使得老鼠特别容易中毒（因此这是控制鼠患的好方法）。