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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.
穿透、滲透
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，原文照列，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/
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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.
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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
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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.
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To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
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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.
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board-gameschessgamesTo move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。