| 英语单词 | contaminated |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [kən'tæmɪneɪtɪd] 美 [kən'tæməneɪtɪd] |
| 中文释义 | adj.受污染的 动词contaminate的过去式和过去分词. |
| 英语例句 | (1) Four children have died after drinking the contaminated milk made by some of China's main producers. (2) The disease is caused by ingesting food or water contaminated with a comma-shaped bacterium called Vibrio cholerae. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 四个孩子在饮用由中国一些主要生产商的受污染的牛奶后已经死亡。 (2) 这种疾病是由于摄取的食物或食水受污染的同一个逗号形细菌称为霍乱弧菌。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Something that's contaminated is polluted or fouled. People should not drink or brush their teeth with contaminated water. |
| vocabulary扩展 | If a medical test or sample becomes contaminated, it means that some foreign material has corrupted it — the test has to be retaken. Likewise, if the water in your well is contaminated with arsenic, which is poisonous in high enough concentrations, you'll have to drain and clean the well or possibly even dig a new one. Things become contaminated when they're exposed to dangerous or dirty substances. The Latin root of contaminated is contaminare, "to defile." |
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