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impurity n.不纯；杂质 (1) 因为水质不纯净，所以不能饮用。(2) 含杂质的不纯混合物被提纯。(3) 食物中有一些杂质。(4) 工人们正去除银中的杂质。(5) 氧气与铁中的杂质发生剧烈的化学反应。 When water is pure, the only thing in that water is water. Add a contaminant, say salt or bleach, and you are introducing an impurity, something that turns the water impure. When used with people, the word has a religious overtone. Someone who is pure is unspoiled by sin. Think Snow White. If you convinced Snow White to rob a bank with you, you'd be spoiling her good nature with your wretched impurity.

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英 [ɪm'pjʊərəti] 美 [ɪm'pjʊrəti] (1) Impurity of the water made it unfit to drink.(2) The impure mixture with impurity is purified.(3) There are some impurities in food.(4) Workers are removing impurities from silver.(5) The oxygen react vigorously with the impurity in the iron. An impurity is something that ruins the uncontaminated nature of something. If someone accuses you of impurity, they think you or your nature has been spoiled in some way by sin. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]杂质；不纯物质 Impurities are substances that are present in small quantities in another substance and make it dirty or of an unacceptable quality.   [usu pl]The air in the factory is filtered to remove impurities.工厂里的空气要经过过滤，以清除其中的杂质。2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]淫乱；不贞 Impurity is the state of being no longer pure, especially sexually pure.

英语单词	impurity
英美音标	英 [ɪm'pjʊərəti] 美 [ɪm'pjʊrəti]
中文释义	n.不纯；杂质
英语例句	(1) Impurity of the water made it unfit to drink. (2) The impure mixture with impurity is purified. (3) There are some impurities in food. (4) Workers are removing impurities from silver. (5) The oxygen react vigorously with the impurity in the iron.
中文例句	(1) 因为水质不纯净，所以不能饮用。 (2) 含杂质的不纯混合物被提纯。 (3) 食物中有一些杂质。 (4) 工人们正去除银中的杂质。 (5) 氧气与铁中的杂质发生剧烈的化学反应。
vocabulary简明	An impurity is something that ruins the uncontaminated nature of something. If someone accuses you of impurity, they think you or your nature has been spoiled in some way by sin.
vocabulary扩展	When water is pure, the only thing in that water is water. Add a contaminant, say salt or bleach, and you are introducing an impurity, something that turns the water impure. When used with people, the word has a religious overtone. Someone who is pure is unspoiled by sin. Think Snow White. If you convinced Snow White to rob a bank with you, you'd be spoiling her good nature with your wretched impurity.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]杂质；不纯物质 Impurities are substances that are present in small quantities in another substance and make it dirty or of an unacceptable quality. [usu pl] The air in the factory is filtered to remove impurities. 工厂里的空气要经过过滤，以清除其中的杂质。 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]淫乱；不贞 Impurity is the state of being no longer pure, especially sexually pure.

Impurity Water Nature Sin Pure Snow 英 ɪm'pjʊərəti] 美