infect: [14] Latin inficere originally meant ‘put in’ – it was a compound verb formed from the prefix in- and facere ‘put, do’ (source of English fact, fashion, etc). Its earliest specialized extension was ‘dip in’, which was applied specifically to the dipping of cloth into dye. From this it moved on to ‘stain’, and then it was a short step to ‘taint, spoil’. ‘Affect with disease’ was a post-Latin development. English acquired the word via the Latin past participial stem infect-. => fact, factory, fashion, perfect
infect (v.)
late 14c., from Latin infectus, past participle of inficere "to spoil, stain," literally "to put in to, dip into," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + facere "to make, do, perform" (see factitious). Related: Infected; infecting.
雙語例句
1. He thought they might infect others with their bourgeois ideas.
他認為他們可以用他們的資產(chǎn)階級思想去影響別人。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The birds infect the milk.
鳥污染了牛奶。
來自柯林斯例句
3. It is not possible to infect another person through kissing.
接吻不可能把這種病傳染給他人。
來自《權威詞典》
4. Go away, I don't want to infect you with my cold.
躲開, 我不愿意把感冒傳染給你.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. I didn't pay any attention to it because I never infect.