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小词详解 | contaminate
contaminate 英 [kənˈtæmɪneɪt] 美 [kənˈtæmɪneɪt]
Governments could impose stricter regulations on battery recycling and paint manufacturing and clean up contaminated soils.
政府可以对电池回收和油漆生产实施更严格的规定,并清理受污染的土壤。
——《经济学人》But critics say the water from Fukushima has been contaminated with more hazardous radioactive materials than what is typical.
但批评人士表示,福岛的水受到的有害放射性物质污染比通常情况下要多。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 通过接触或添加有毒或污染物质使(某物)变得不洁
受细菌感染的伤口
a wound contaminated by bacteria受到污染的血液/食物/土壤
contaminated blood/food/soil饮用水被铅污染了。
The drinking water has become contaminated with lead.
毒害我们青少年的心灵
contaminate the minds of our young people
大部分海岸已受到核废料污染。
Much of the coast has been contaminated by nuclear waste.
Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous. For that cause, and to prevent worse consequences, I shall deny you hereafter admission into this house, and give notice now that I require your instant departure.
你的到来是一种道德上的毒素,可以把最有德性的人都玷污了。为了这个缘故,而且为了防止更糟的后果,今后我不允许你到这家里来,现在就通知你,我要你马上离开。
pollute: contaminate (water, air, or a place) with harmful or poisonous substances taint: contaminate or pollute (something) defile: desecrate or profane (something sacred)