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 contaminated [kən'tæmineitid]   添加此单词到默认生词本
v. 污染
vbl. 污染

  1. Fresh water was at a premium after the reservoir was contaminated.
    在水库被污染之后，清水便因稀而贵了
  2. The state of being contaminated.
    被污染被污染的状态


contaminated
[ adj ]
  1. corrupted by contact or association

    2. <adj.all>
    contaminated evidence
  2. rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution

    3. <adj.all>
    had to boil the contaminated water
    polluted lakes and streams


Contaminate \Con*tam"i*nate\ (k[o^]n*t[a^]m"[i^]*n[=a]t), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Contaminated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Contaminating}.] [L. contaminatus, p. p. of contaminare to
bring into contact, to contaminate, fr. contamen contagion,
for contagmen; con- + root of tangere to touch. See
{Contact}.]
To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully;
to taint; to pollute; to defile.

Shall we now
Contaminate our figures with base bribes? --Shak.

I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor
virtue contaminated. --Goldsmith.

Syn: To pollute; defile; sully; taint; tarnish; soil; stain;
corrupt.

contaminated \contaminated\ adj.
1. containing undesired or infective microorganisms.

Syn: dirty, infected.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. rendered impure by addition of deleterious substances; as,
had to boil the contaminated water.

Syn: polluted.
[WordNet 1.5]

3. 1 (Computers) damaged by inclusion of incorrect data or
information not belonging; as, The file was contaminated
by a buggy editor.

Syn: corrupted.
[PJC]

4. appearing unethical due to a questionable source or
motives; -- of money or activities; as, The fund was
contaminated by a large donation from a mobster.

Syn: tainted.
[PJC]

  1. If the test proves successful, it could allow blood contaminated with the virus to be detected and thus prevent transmission of the disease through blood transfusions.
  2. "All American taxpayers have an important stake in how these problems are resolved," said Luken, who supports a bill by Rep. John LaFale D-N.Y., to exempt lenders from Superfund liability when they foreclose on contaminated property.
  3. "It would be very rare for a snail shell to be more than 20 percent contaminated," he said.
  4. The Shetland salmon farming industry lost about Pounds 20m because some fish were contaminated and became unsaleable.
  5. Of the estimated 1 million HIV-infected Americans, only one patient is believed to have been contaminated during medical treatment, experts say.
  6. The proposal provides few details on standards and leaves open the question of who should be responsible for cleaning up contaminated wells.
  7. The Socialists are probably too contaminated as election partners, and public opinion is clearly poised for a conservative alternative.
  8. Tass said the Moscow city council was besieged with telephone calls Friday night from Muscovites worried that their neighborhood might be contaminated by poisonous gas released by the explosion earlier in the day.
  9. But, she said, "we still got contaminated water, even with increased chlorination." The water for the coastal region is drawn from the Sea of Galilee and piped to Tel Aviv via the national water carrier, Mekorot.
  10. An accident involving similarly stored wastes in the Soviet Union in 1957 released huge amounts of radiation and contaminated an area covering hundreds of square miles, forcing the evacuation of 10,000 people.
  11. One can only hope that Mr Major's vernacular has not been too contaminated by Appleby-ese.
  12. An unpublished draft of a government study indicates that fish in much of the Great Lakes and many U.S. rivers are contaminated by low levels of dioxin.
  13. Needles contaminated with the HIV virus are believed to be a major method of transmitting AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the fatal disease that attacks the body's immune system leaving it vulnerable to cancers and other diseases.
  14. The diseases broke out after the annual southwest monsoon hit India and the rains contaminated drinking water supplies.
  15. Meanwhile, Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr., was scheduled later today to fly to Alaska for a four-day tour, his first visit to the area contaminated by the March 24 spill.
  16. "We are also storing some 150 tons of butter contaminated with PCBs," Havlicek said.
  17. The defense strongly disagreed, however, arguing that the jury had been "contaminated" by talking to the judge after the dismissal and "can't possibly be put back together."
  18. One of the basic directives that Congress gave EPA in 1986 was to permanently destroy "to the maximum extent practicable" the contaminated waste found at the worst of the nation's tens of thousands of chemical dumps.
  19. The American Red Cross failed to notify federal authorities about 230 cases in which patients may have contracted AIDS through contaminated blood transfusions, a newspaper reported today.
  20. State officials have said many of the treated beaches remain badly contaminated and need more work.
  21. In Africa, AIDS is mainly spread by heterosexual contact and the use of contaminated blood or medical equipment.
  22. For example, it contends that ground water at every site is contaminated with radionuclides or hazardous chemicals.
  23. The FDA restricts interstate shipment of corn that is contaminated with even a minuscule amount of aflatoxin if it is intended for human or animal consumption.
  24. A revolver, considered by many departments more likely to fire if contaminated with dirt, cannot hold more than five or six rounds in the calibers needed for police use.
  25. To be sure, contaminated materials, such as glass that isn't clean and separated by color, often can be recycled into products such as "glassphalt" for paving roads.
  26. But when it recalled its water from distribution worldwide last Wednesday, Perrier said small amounts of benzene gas passed through a dirty filter and contaminated some bottles at its natural spring in southern France.
  27. Among them: persistent leaks of plutonium from contaminated oil drums and large fires in 1957 and 1969.
  28. Much of the waste is contaminated with dioxin, a chemical believed to cause cancer and a range of other ailments.
  29. Most health workers, Coggin said, appear to be unaware of voluntary guidelines that the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has suggested for handling contaminated blood.
  30. For as many as eight months, 25,000 households and hundreds of businesses were served with tap water that was possibly contaminated.
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