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

• Aiming treatment at those animals would reduce the likelihood of resistance emerging without harming a farmer's ability to control infestations.
  集中治疗这些动物则会降低耐药性发生的可能性，同时也不会损害农民控制虫害的能力。
• 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。
• Farmers understand that adverse weather or severe pest infestations, for-example, can produce crop failure, or lack of response.
  农民也知道如遇不利天气或虫害严重，作物会出现减产现象，或实行的各项措施达不到预期效果。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• This area in central Africa has been struggling to cope with the devastating impact of drought and locusts infestations.
  这方面一直挣扎在中部非洲的破坏性影响为应付干旱和蝗虫侵扰。
• 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。
• Their pocket-size farm had been plagued with insect infestations.
  他们的超微型农场虫害频频。