| 单词 | permeate |
| 释义 | per·me·ate intransitive verb < liquid permeating through the porous substance > transitive verb 1. < the air is permeated by the pungent scent of tobacco — American Guide Series: North Carolina > < an atmosphere of distrust … has been allowed to permeate the government — Vannevar Bush > 2. < water permeates sand > Synonyms: < a green dye permeating a garment > < a pleasant smell which permeated the shop from morning till night — Ben Riker > < the entire Divine Comedy is permeated with the spirit of courtly love — R.A.Hall b.1911 > < how deeply the sense of beauty had permeated the whole nation — Laurence Binyon > < their tribes gradually became permeated with a good deal of Chinese culture — Owen & Eleanor Lattimore > pervade, close to permeate, stresses a spreading diffusion throughout every part of a whole < I want kindness and tolerance to pervade the earth — F.A.Swinnerton > < an eerie silence pervades the place — Lewis Mumford > < the artistry of this first chapter … pervades and illumines the entire novel — G.H.Genzmer > < the influence of Descartes pervades economics even today — Phoebe T. Danière > penetrate in this context implies the entrance of something that goes deep and transmits its characteristic or efficient force throughout < a commanding significance, which penetrates the whole, informing and ordering everything — F.R.Leavis > < the whole poem is penetrated with religion — G.G.Coulton > < the remains of the aristocratic society … are penetrated not only with an aristocratic but with a political spirit — Walter Bagehot > impenetrate is an intensive of penetrate, often throwing more stress on the idea of diffusion than of entrance < some coloring substance with which the liquid was impenetrated > interpenetrate, an intensive of penetrate, can also apply to the mutual penetration of two substances or entities < it overlaps and interpenetrates every other major field of human enterprise — Thomas Munro > < the way in which the Bible — and the Book of Common Prayer — have interpenetrated English life — Douglas Bush > < the air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust — Willa Cather > < the organization of the sonnet often demands that the discourse and the moral should interpenetrate — Iain Fletcher > impregnate can strongly imply a causative power and stress a strong influence or effect on a thing or diffusion of something within it to the point of pervasion of all parts of the whole < the water is impregnated with magnesia — Aldous Huxley > < the air is impregnated with a sort of frigid clamminess — E.A.Robinson > < from his environment the boy had been thoroughly impregnated with what was to become the prevailing American doctrine — Harriot B.Barbour > saturate in this context implies impregnation, usually by something obvious or overabundant, to the point where nothing more may be taken up or absorbed < the air is warm, thick, sticky, and … saturated with vegetable odours — E.J.Banfield > < the air is saturated with golden light — Gertrude Diamant > < grew up in an atmosphere saturated by the strictest Puritan dogma and doctrine — David Fairchild > < verse that is saturated with emotion — J.L.Lowes > < the lugubrious vigilance that saturates the whole document — J.V.Kelleher > |
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