contaminate是什么意思,contaminate怎么用

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📰 外刊例句

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》

—— 《纽约时报》


📖 基本释义

[verb] make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance
[动词] 通过接触或添加有毒或污染物质使(某物)变得不洁


💡 深入解读

Contaminate 是最近的一个热点单词,自日本核污染水(nuclear-contaminated water)于2023年8月24日下午开始排海以来, 就频频出现在外媒报道中。该词于15世纪初由拉丁语contaminare(污染、腐化、使混在一起变质,本义指“使相接触”)的过去分词contaminatus进入英语,也是用来表示“弄脏、污染”,主要指通过接触或添加外部有毒或污染物质使某物变得不洁或有害,也包括通过接触致病物质而“感染”疾病,

比如:

a wound contaminated by bacteria受细菌感染的伤口

受到污染的血液/食物/土壤

contaminated blood/food/soil

The drinking water has become contaminated with lead.饮用水被铅污染了。

contaminate the minds of our young people从这个概念出发, contaminate 进而用来喻指“玷污、毒害、腐蚀”人的思想或品德等,比如:毒害我们青少年的心灵

Much of the coast has been contaminated by nuclear waste.此外, contaminate 还可以专门用来表示“对……造成放射性污染、使受放射性污染”,比如:大部分海岸已受到核废料污染。


📚 名著用例

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。

— 出自《英国女作家艾米莉·勃朗特(Emily Brontë)的长篇小说《呼啸山庄》( Wuthering Heights )。》


🔍 同近义词

  • pollute: contaminate (water, air, or a place) with harmful or poisonous substances
  • taint: contaminate or pollute (something)
  • defile: desecrate or profane (something sacred)
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