[with obj.](especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of (尤指臭气)弥漫于,渗透于 a smell of stale cabbage pervaded the air. 腐烂卷心菜的臭味弥漫在空气中。 ■(of an influence, feeling, or quality) be present and apparent throughout (影响,感情,品质)遍及于,充满 the sense of crisis which pervaded Europe in the 1930s. 20世纪30年代遍布欧洲的危机感。
派生 pervader noun pervasion noun 语源
mid 17th cent. (also in the sense 'traverse'): from Latin pervadere, from per- 'throughout' + vadere 'go'