contaminate
contaminate 英 [kənˈtæmɪneɪt] 美 [kənˈtæməˌnet]
vt. 污染，弄脏
进行时:contaminating 过去式:contaminated 过去分词:contaminated 第三人称单数:contaminates 名词复数:contaminates
- The verb contaminate means the same as pollute. Whether it’s food, air, or water, when you contaminate something, you make it impure or hazardous.
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- vt. 污染，弄脏
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1. The drinking water has become contaminated with lead.
饮用水被铅污染了。
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2. contaminated blood, contaminated food, contaminated soil
受到污染的血液╱食物╱土壤
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3. They were accused of contaminating the minds of our young people.
他们被指控毒害我们青少年的心灵。
- contaminate (v.) early 15c., "infect with a disease, defile," from Latin contaminatus, past participle of contaminare "to defile, to corrupt, to deteriorate by mingling," originally "to bring into contact," from contamen "contact; pollution," from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + *tag-, base of tangere "to touch" (from PIE root *tag- "to touch, handle"). Related: Contaminant (1934).
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