今天要教的單詞是一個很常用但學得比較少的單詞：penetrate

先讀一下概述：

To penetrate is to force into （強行進入）or pierce（刺進） through. If the fog is thick as pea soup（綠豆湯）, your flashlight won’t penetrate it. If you stubbornly ignore good advice, people might say nothing can penetrate that thick skull（頭骨） of yours.

詞源

We get penetrate from the Latin word penetrare, which combines penes("within") and intrare ("to enter").

penetrate

• pen：在…裡面
• etr：進入
• -ate：動詞詞尾

英文解釋

大家可以先用英語解釋加圖片來猜中文，文末會公佈中文解釋和例句翻譯。

1. to move into or through something

• Amazingly, the bullet did not penetrate his brain.
• His voice just loud enough to penetrate the door.
• In a normal winter, the frost
  penetrates deeply enough to kill off insect eggs in the soil.

2.to succeed in becoming part of an organization, etc. and working within it

• The Cooperation fund was set up expressly to help U.S. companies penetrate the Chinese market.
• The organization had been penetrated by a spy.

3. to reach or affect something

• These changes had not yet penetrated as far west as the mountains.

4.If your eyes penetrate somewhere dark, you manage to see through it

• Our eyes couldn't penetrate the dark of the inner cave.

5.When a man penetrates his partner during sex, he puts his penis into his or her body.

• it allows you to penetrate her deeply.

6. to study or investigate something in order to understand it:

• It's hard to penetrate her mind.

好啦，以上就是它的6的含義，你們有猜對中文意思嗎？我們下面來看看！

中文解釋

1.穿透，穿過

• 神奇的是，子彈竟然沒有打穿他的大腦。
• 他的聲音大到可以穿透這扇門。
• 在正常的冬天，晨霜可以足夠深的穿進泥土裡，殺死蟲卵。

2.滲入，潛入（組織），打入（市場）

• 成立這個合作基金，特意用來幫助企業打入中國市場。
• 組織被間諜潛入了。

3.擴散，影響

• 這些變化還沒向西影響到山裡面。

4.（眼睛）看進去

• 我們還不能看得見漆黑山洞的裡頭。

5.插入（身體）

• 這能讓你插得更深。

6.看穿，看透

• 很難看透她的心。

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