penetrate
/ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/ 动词 B2中文： 深入、穿透、穿入、贯穿
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce. · Light penetrates darkness.
- To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand. · I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply. · to penetrate one's heart with pity
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus. · a male elephant comes up and penetrates the female
- To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
He/she/it penetrates · 过去式 penetrated · 过去分词 penetrated · -ing形式 penetrating
动词形式
- 原形
- penetrate
- He/she/it
- penetrates
- 过去式
- penetrated
- 过去分词
- penetrated
- -ing形式
- penetrating
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There were a number of letters, bills, and notebooks, which Holmes turned over and examined with quick, nervous fingers and darting, penetrating eyes.
“It’s pretty maddening to think that an important secret may lie here on this slip of paper, and that it is beyond human power to penetrate it.”
“Dear me, Watson, is it possible that you have not penetrated the fact that the case hangs upon the missing dumb-bell?
I have been trying some experiments after you left us this afternoon, and I find that no noise which MacDonald can make in the study can penetrate to me in the pantry when the doors are all shut.
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