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 pollution [pә'lu:ʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 污染, 玷污

[化] 污染

[医] 遗精, 污染




    pollution
    [ noun ]
    1. undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities

    2. <noun.state>
    3. the state of being polluted

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

    6. <noun.act>


    Pollution \Pol*lu"tion\, n. [L. pollutio: cf. F. pollution.]
    1. The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in
    any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.

    2. (Med.) The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times
    than in sexual intercourse. --Dunglison.

    1. Stanley Chesley, the lead lawyer for the residents, has said lawyers expect the monitoring will last 30 to 40 years and track such things as lung cancer and kidney diseases usually associated with uranium pollution.
    2. 'Concern about pollution makes scientists feel that we should try to find out what is there before it is destroyed.' Marine biotechnology is still in its infancy.
    3. A day after declaring himself to be a life-long environmentalist, the Republican nominee traveled to Massachusetts and took a boat tour of the harbor _ an event aimed at making its pollution problems an embarrassment for the governor.
    4. Even in New York, where a new scam comes along about as often as a puff of pollution from New Jersey, this is one for the books: They're scalping lox.
    5. Fyodor Morgun, head of the State Committee for the Protection of Nature, has said that pollution levels in 102 Soviet cities affecting more than 50 million people are often 10 times higher than Soviet laws permit.
    6. But Fitzwater said pollution curbs should not be proposed unilaterally and the administration must consider the long-term economic impacts of any actions aimed at dealing with global warming.
    7. "Usually isolated locations were disturbed by aircraft and people" while "noise pollution" on marine band radios from spill cleanup activities made monitoring marine channels difficult and unpleasant, the report stated.
    8. Smog-causing pollutants, or ozone, are reduced through controls on automobiles and industry, with annual pollution improvements of 4 percent a year required over first six years.
    9. Agency officials expressed concern about possible pollution that the leak of the poisonous fumes and chemicals might cause.
    10. In Chamonix, France, ice sculptors Christian Claudel and Francis Cuny carved a giant thermometer on the Mer de Glace glacier to protest global warming resulting from air pollution.
    11. The House by a 401-21 margin approved pollution controls late Wednesday on factories, automobiles and electric power plants.
    12. Cigarette pollution is fouling the air.
    13. Illinois officials, in fact, have a computerized link to this plant that allows them to constantly monitor emissions, and this enforcement case initially focused on air pollution.
    14. The plaintiffs said radioactive pollution had reduced their property values and inflicted emotional suffering.
    15. In addition to global pollution, the finance officials were reviewing such issues as the Third World debt crisis, the political upheaval in Eastern Europe and the efforts needed to keep huge trade imbalances from derailing the global economic expansion.
    16. The group's positions include rolling back tax breaks for the wealthy, immediate reductions in automotive and industrial pollution levels, and higher pay for teachers.
    17. Malaysia has its own pollution problems, the result of eight years of more than 8 per cent economic growth, and is reluctant to lay all the blame on Indonesia.
    18. Browning-Ferris Industries parted ways with other pollution control stocks, gaining 1 3/4 to 23 1/2 while others in the group fell.
    19. Congressional talks on a final clean air bill began Friday as a White House aide said the president remains strongly opposed to giving financial aid to workers who lose jobs because of tougher pollution requirements.
    20. Industrial pollution has destroyed large tracts of fertile land. There are chronic shortages of agricultural feed and raw materials for industry.
    21. Gulf Coast officials say erratic weather patterns and pollution have combined to devastate the local oyster reefs.
    22. US courts have also ruled that policyholders can claim on all their insurance policies stretching back to the original point at which pollution is deemed to have begun.
    23. Outboard and inboard engines for recreational boats sold in the region would have to meet tougher air pollution control standards.
    24. Moreover, if we were using such low-carbon fuels the level of air pollution would be much reduced and both the environment and human health would benefit. The reason, of course, is the relative cost.
    25. Environmentalists, meanwhile, said that while a number of votes are expected on other amendments intended to strengthen the clean air bill, the tougher auto pollution curbs were a top priority.
    26. The two countries have signed an agreement to halve trans-boundary air pollution, measured by 1980 levels, in the next five years.
    27. Major refineries quit producing leaded fuel because of the EPA's tougher pollution controls and declining demand.
    28. "If the ship was allowed to discharge its crude into another ship, the amount of pollution would be greatly less than it is now," Souri said.
    29. Two years later, the Tribune said, Precision got a $23 million sanitary district subcontract for work on Deep Tunnel, a giant pollution control project, but farmed virtually all of the work to other firms.
    30. The problem in China has always been the disconnection between the provinces and the centre.' For a start, fines are generally too low to be effective in deterring pollution or encouraging investment in cleaner technology.
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