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。
• Heavy infestations may cause weight loss and death.
  沉重的感染可能会导致体重减轻和死亡。
• Although it took into account preparedness future infestations, but can not think of the immediate danger, the results still failed to avoid disaster.
  它虽然考虑到了防备未来的灾患，却没想到眼前的危险，结果还是没能避过灾难。
• Insect infestations in certain cotton-growing regions of the world have caused dramatic increase in the price of cotton on the world market.
  害虫在世界范围内的棉花种植区肆虐导致了棉花价格的飞涨。
• Historically, areas of Africa have experienced periodic locusts infestations, which can completely destroy crops.
  历史上，非洲地区蝗虫侵扰经历周期，它可以完全摧毁农作物。
• Infestations of these caterpillars may defoliate oaks and other hardwood trees but usually do no permanent damage.
  这些毛虫的侵扰可能使橡树落叶和其他树木的硬木树但通常都没有永久性损伤。
• But what's happening is the news media attention focusing on these isolated infestations here and there creates a huge concern among people and I think we have to keep a bit of this in perspective.
  但因为媒体的大肆报道这种孤立的寄生虫，在人群中间出现了许多的焦虑和恐慌，我认为这是值得商榷的。
• Their pocket-size farm had been plagued with insect infestations.
  他们的超微型农场虫害频频。
• The worst drought to hit the United States since the 1930s has farmers coping with a number of impacts, from cyanide poisoning in cattle to fungal infestations in corn.
  美国遭受自20世纪30年代以来最严重的旱灾，农民忙着应付一系列的冲击，从牛氰化物中毒到玉米被真菌污染。
• Pest control dangerous goods store an anthelmintic used to treat hookworm and pinworm and roundworm infestations.
  防治虫鼠危险物品仓用来治疗十二指肠、蛲虫和蛔虫横行的杀虫。