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.
双语例句
1. He thought they might infect others with their bourgeois ideas.
他认为他们可以用他们的资产阶级思想去影响别人。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The birds infect the milk.
鸟污染了牛奶。
来自柯林斯例句
3. It is not possible to infect another person through kissing.
接吻不可能把这种病传染给他人。
来自《权威词典》
4. Go away, I don't want to infect you with my cold.
躲开, 我不愿意把感冒传染给你.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. I didn't pay any attention to it because I never infect.
