- 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.
From the word’s history
From Latin penētrātus, past participle of penētrō 'to place within, enter', from penes 'within'.
源自拉丁文 penētrō「放進、進入」，來自 penes「在裡面」。
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
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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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