contamination
contamination 英 [kən,tæmɪ'neɪʃən] 美
n. 污染，玷污；污染物
名词复数:contaminations
- Contamination is the unwanted pollution of something by another substance. When a nuclear power plant leaks radiation into the atmosphere, for example, it causes a contamination of the surrounding area.
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- n. 污染，玷污；污染物
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1. However, contamination can occur at any point along the food chain, from field to table.
然而，污染沿着食物链可能在任何的点上发生，从田地到餐桌。
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2. There is no evidence of contamination in our lab, and we have controlled for that all along.
我们的实验室不存在污染，在整个实验过程中我们都控制的很好。
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3. Investigations traced the source of all Ebola Reston outbreaks to one export facility near Manila in the Philippines, but the mode of contamination of this facility was not determined.
调查追踪到所有埃博拉莱斯顿亚型的暴发都源于菲律宾马尼拉附近的一个出口设施，但未能确定这一设施的污染方式。
- contamination (n.) early 15c., contaminacioun, "infection," from Medieval Latin contaminationem (nominative contaminatio) "a polluting, contamination, defilement," noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin 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-) + base of tangere "to touch" (from PIE root *tag- "to touch, handle"). Figurative sense is from c. 1620; specifically of radioactivity from 1913.
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