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

• 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）。
• 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。
• 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。
• Their pocket-size farm had been plagued with insect infestations.
  他们的超微型农场虫害频频。
• They could damage crops and make them vulnerable to infection and infestations by pests and weeds, thereby reducing food supplies and potentially contributing to malnutrition.
  它们会损害庄稼，使庄稼易受害虫和杂草的影响和侵袭，因此引起食物供应不足和潜在的营养不良。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It is well established in the United States and Canada with serious infestations in the Great Lakes and St.
  这种植物之所以值得研究，是因为它严重侵扰了五大湖区及圣劳伦斯地区。