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污染

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

contaminated
     adj 1: corrupted by contact or association; "contaminated evidence"
            [ant: {uncontaminated}]
     2: contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds";
        "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen [syn: {dirty},
         {infected}, {pestiferous}]
     3: rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to
        boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"
        [syn: {polluted}]