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。
英英词典释义
Adjective
1. (often followed by `with' or used in combination) troubled by or encroached upon in large numbers;
"waters infested with sharks""shark-infested waters""the locust-overrun countryside""drug-plagued streets"