1. 1穿透、滲透

    To penetrate something means to go into it or through it, especially something that is usually hard to get into — a knife can penetrate skin, light can penetrate thick clouds, and water can penetrate a crack in a wall. It is also used for ideas and groups: a company can 'penetrate' a new market, meaning it successfully starts selling there, and a spy can 'penetrate' an enemy organization, meaning they get inside it secretly.

core核心畫面

組成來自拉丁文 penetrare,意思是「放入內部」。

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

penetrateverb/ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/

  • 1

    To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.

    • Light penetrates darkness.
    • He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
  • 2

    To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.

    • I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
    • things which here were […]too subtile for us to penetrate
  • 3

    To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.

    • to penetrate one's heart with pity
    • The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.
  • 4

    To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.

  • 5

    To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.

    • a male elephant comes up and penetrates the female
    • His weapons have been destroyed; his body has been or can be penetrated. In other words, he is rapable.
  • 6

    board-gameschessgamesTo move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.

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