v.滲透；看穿；穿透；了解；（情報(bào)人員的）滲透

The mist penetrated into the room. 霧氣滲進(jìn)了室內(nèi)。

The University Chinese training should penetrate the humanity consciousness 大學(xué)語(yǔ)文教育應(yīng)滲透人文精神

Honda's success in penetrating Western motorcycle markets. 本田公司的成功滲透西方摩托車(chē)的市場(chǎng)。

Not many people managed to penetrate my disguise. 沒(méi)有幾個(gè)人識(shí)破我的偽裝。

He strained his eyes to penetrate beyond the thick cloud of dust. 他竭力想透過(guò)塵埃看清那邊的東西。

Nothing we say penetrates his thick skull! 無(wú)論我們說(shuō)什麼他都不懂。

I heard what he said, but it didn't penetrate. 我聽(tīng)他所言，但不明白說(shuō)些什么。

The organization was penetrated and the survivors fled. 該組織遭到滲透，幸存者已逃逸了。

penetrate的基本意思是“刺穿,穿透,打進(jìn)”,可指(用)器具穿入或穿透,強(qiáng)調(diào)深入進(jìn)去或貫穿,有時(shí)帶有困難的意味,還可引申作“看穿”“認(rèn)出”“了解”解,即表示通過(guò)表面現(xiàn)象看到本質(zhì),主語(yǔ)常用指物的名詞或代詞。

penetrate用作不及物動(dòng)詞時(shí),也可作“被了解,看透,穿透,滲透”解,常與介詞to, into, through等連用。penetrate還可表示“充滿(mǎn)(某種情緒)”,常與with連用。

penetrate可用作及物動(dòng)詞,也可用作不及物動(dòng)詞。用作及物動(dòng)詞時(shí),接名詞或代詞作賓語(yǔ)。

漢語(yǔ)說(shuō)“深入(群眾、生活等)”不能用penetrate。例如: 作家應(yīng)該深入百姓當(dāng)中。誤:Writers should penetrate into themasses.正:Writers should move among themasses.