1.infect的基本意思是“传染”“污染”。引申可作“影响”解。可以是有意地,也可以是无意地。
2.infect可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词或代词作宾语。用作不及物动词时主动结构常含有被动意义。
3.infect后面常接with表示“把…传染给…”或“使…充满某种感情”。

infect with(v.+prep.)
▲infect sb/sth with sth
1.把…传染给… cause (sb) to catch (a disease) from oneself
She had a bad cold last week and must have infected me with it.她上星期得了重感冒,一定传给我了。
◇ 用于be ～ed结构
The man has been infected with cholera.这人已染上了霍乱。
The water was infected with germs.这些水被细菌污染了。
2.使…充满(某种感情) fill (sb) with (a feeling)
A good teacher should be able to infect his students with his own keenness for his subject.一个好教师应能以自己对本学科的热爱来影响学生。
◇ 用于be ～ed结构
They are all infected with his high spirits.他们都被高昂的情绪所鼓舞。
These young people were infected with the revolutionary fever.这些年轻人被革命热情所感染。

用作不及物动词
▲S+～(+A)
I didn't pay attention to it because I never infected.我对它根本不注意,因为我从不受传染。
用作及物动词
▲S+～+n./pron.
Anyone with a bad cold may infect the people around him.任何重感冒都可能把疾病传染给周围的人。
The spreading disease infected her eyes, and she became blind.她双目染疾,完全失明了。
Waste gases infected the air.废气污染了空气。
The captain's courage infected his soldiers.上尉的勇气感染了他的士兵。
◇ 用于be ～ed结构
I didn't pay attention to it because I am never infected.我对它根本不注意,因为我从不受传染。
The open wound soon became infected.敞露的伤口很快受到了感染。
The whole room was infected by the smell of coal.整个房间都有烟油味。
Whole societies become infected by these vices.整个社会都被这些恶习所腐蚀。
其他
It was bold of a man to walk through hundreds of miles of lion infected country with nothing but a spear in his hand.一个人除了一根长矛什么都不带而只身走过几百里狮子出没的地区真是勇敢。