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 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.市中心充斥着犯罪与毒品。
英汉词典释义
vt.
害虫、野兽大批出没于
The back yard was infested by rats.后院里老鼠猖獗。
遍布于
Crime infests that poor neighbourhood.那个贫困街区犯罪猖獗。
英英词典释义
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"