外部链接:    leo英德   dict有道 百度搜索百度 google谷歌 google图片 wiki维基 百度百科百科   

 contamination [kәn,tæmi'neiʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 污染, 污物

[化] 污染; 沾污

[医] 污染, 沾污

[经] 污染, 与他物接触


  1. The act or process of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances.
    污染造成污染的行为或过程或被污染的状态,尤指因为排放有害物质而造成的对土壤、水或大气的污染
  2. A robe or smock worn in operating rooms and other parts of hospitals as a guard against contamination.
    手术服在手术室里和医院的其他地方为防止感染或传染而穿的长袍或罩衫
  3. The other part is just contamination.
    其他部分只是污染之物而已。


contamination
[ noun ]
  1. the state of being contaminated

  2. <noun.state>
  3. a substance that contaminates

  4. <noun.substance>
  5. the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors

  6. <noun.act>


Contamination \Con*tam`i*na"tion\
(k[o^]n*t[a^]m`[i^]*n[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. contaminatio.]
The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement;
taint; also, that which contaminates.

  1. The agency has estimated that tens of thousands of people become ill yearly from such contamination.
  2. The alleged contamination by Coors was first disclosed early this year by a Colorado television station after receiving a tip.
  3. The fuel-tank collapse at Ashland's Floreffe Terminal that caused the contamination stemmed from a dime-sized flaw in the tank's nearly 50-year-old steel wall.
  4. PCBs discharged over the years by such major companies as General Electric Co., Reynolds Metals Co. and Aluminum Co. of America still pose severe contamination problems for many of America's rivers, lakes and harbors.
  5. Excess contamination would mar Hubble's ability to detect objects 50 times fainter and with 10 times greater clarity than the best ground-based observatory.
  6. "The agreement called for us to remove and treat sediments and soils that have the highest levels of contamination and encapsulate the remaining low-level soils and sediments in three areas," Baker said.
  7. But the numbers are raising concern, and it does point toward additional sources" of contamination.
  8. The contamination took place, Strasma said, as workers tried to clean up the spilled steel.
  9. Mr. Wichlep said the company stopped putting pipeline liquids in pits in 1977, and said he didn't know when the company discovered the contamination.
  10. Montagnier said that by contamination he meant the virus in one test tube could contaminate other viral cultures in the laboratory and then be identified as a new virus.
  11. Also, testing for specific drugs found no contamination with sulfamethazine, which is not approved for use in any food-producing animal.
  12. In a nationally broadcast address, Interior Minister Carlos Caceres vowed that Chile would remain "a dependable fruit supplier to the world." He called the contamination a case of communist sabotage. Communist Party spokesmen denied any involvement.
  13. The EPA said Monday every home in the country should be tested for radon because contamination is wider spread than previously believed.
  14. Goodwill later sold the site, before, it says, there was any indication of contamination.
  15. Shifting winds threatened to push balls of tar-like sludge toward Homer and other Cook Inlet communities, and the herring fishery at the north end of Kodiak Island was closed for fear of contamination.
  16. Baker, a long-time researcher into egg safety, said in a telephone interview Wednesday that lab tests at 53 New York State farms last year failed to turn up any trace of salmonella enteritidis contamination.
  17. "There hasn't been any evidence of AIDS contamination with such samples," Thomas Burke, acting health commissioner, said Wednesday.
  18. In a recent interview, Davis was unable to cite anything in his professional career that includes nearly 10 years in General Foods' beverage division that compared with the stresses of the contamination incident.
  19. It prefers "fecal contamination," saying the stuff "isn't a warm fuzzy substance." FARMS DON'T COMPUTE as much as expected, says an Agriculture Department survey.
  20. "We anticipated that most of the contamination would be within one foot of the soil; in places we were going down to as much as 11 feet," Janosik said.
  21. Clean air was being circulated inside Discovery's sealed payload bay Friday to reduce contamination of the telescope.
  22. The minority opinion said "ice contamination was not a factor in this accident."
  23. The Health Department study, which was finished last year, said chemical contamination in a part of the Love Canal area was no worse than in other parts of Niagara Falls.
  24. Discovery's payload bay was sealed late Saturday night, drastically reducing the risk of contamination to the telescope's finely polished 94.5-inch mirror.
  25. The company didn't provide further details of the contamination.
  26. It said that after tests by independent experts, no contamination or pollution of the company's spring in Vergeze has been found.
  27. Oceanographer Norm Buske and his wife, mathematician Linda Josephson, said they wanted to alert state and federal officials that contamination of vegetation near the closed N Reactor could pose a safety hazard.
  28. In August 1988, the state sent a letter to Fremont County officials saying Lincoln Park residents face a potential health risk because of contamination from the Cotter mill.
  29. Unknown sources account for 28 chemicals in 12 states, not necessarily the same 12 involved in point-source contamination.
  30. The company said it took steps to monitor and replace filters more often so the contamination will not happen again.
加入收藏 本地收藏 百度搜藏 QQ书签 美味书签 Google书签 Mister Wong
您正在访问的是
中国词汇量第二的英语词典
更多精彩,登录后发现......
验证码看不清,请点击刷新
  注册