contaminate
音标：
英音/ kənˈtæmɪneɪt / 美音/ kənˈtæmɪneɪt /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
On top of this, Svitlana’s village is near the front line, and like many of the flood-hit areas is contaminated with ammunition.
除此之外，斯维特拉娜的村庄靠近前线，和许多受洪水袭击的地区一样，也受到弹药污染。
—BBC
Legionnaires’ disease is contracted by breathing in droplets of water contaminated with the bacteria.
军团病是通过吸入被细菌污染的水滴而感染的。
—Washington Times
He said parts of the town were still coated in contaminated sludge and silt.
他说，该镇的部分地区仍然覆盖着受污染的污泥和淤泥。
—BBC
基本释意：
verb
make impure
污染，弄脏；毒害，腐蚀（人的思想或品德）
同义词：
foul,pollute
短释义：
Contaminate comes from the Latin word contaminat-, meaning “made impure.” You can use the word to indicate that a hazardous substance has been introduced into something else, such as food that is contaminated with mold. It can also be used figuratively to describe the spoiling of a good thing, like one person’s habit of gossiping that can contaminate a conversation among friends.
动词污染的意思与污染相同。无论是食物、空气还是水，当你污染某些东西时，就会使其变得不纯净或变得危险。
长释义：
Contaminate comes from the Latin word contaminat-, meaning “made impure.” You can use the word to indicate that a hazardous substance has been introduced into something else, such as food that is contaminated with mold. It can also be used figuratively to describe the spoiling of a good thing, like one person’s habit of gossiping that can contaminate a conversation among friends.
污染来自拉丁词contaminat-，意思是“变得不纯净”。您可以使用该词来表示有害物质已被引入其他物品中，例如被霉菌污染的食品。它也可以用来比喻性地描述一件好事的破坏，就像一个人八卦的习惯会污染朋友之间的谈话。
文学例句：
Maybe the water had gotten contaminated and cholera had done everyone in, wild animals dragging away the bodies.
也许水被污染了，霍乱把所有人都传染了，野生动物拖走了尸体。
—Endangered by Eliot Schrefer
His father was fine, he said, until he was confronted by any idea that he felt came from the contaminated world.
他说，他的父亲很好，直到他遇到任何他认为来自受污染世界的想法。
—The Chosen by Chaim Potok
And I didn’t like the way my father seemed to appear in all of this—as if he were conspiring behind Reb Saunders’ back to contaminate his son.
我不喜欢我父亲在这一切中的表现——就好像他在雷布·桑德斯背后密谋污染他的儿子。
—The Chosen by Chaim Potok
词源：
contaminate (v.)early 15c., “infect with a disease, defile,” from Latin contaminatus, past participle of contaminare “to defile, to corrupt, to deteriorate by mingling,” originally “to bring into contact,” from contamen “contact; pollution,” from assimilated form of com “with, together” (see con-) + *tag-, base of tangere “to touch” (from PIE root *tag- “to touch, handle”). Related: Contaminant (1934).Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
污染（v.）15世纪早期，“感染疾病，玷污”，来自拉丁语contaminatus，contaminare的过去分词“玷污，腐败，因混合而恶化”，最初是“接触”，来自contamen“接触；污染”，源自 com 的同化形式“与、一起”（参见 con-）+ *tag-，tangere 的基部“触摸”（来自 PIE 词根 *tag-“触摸、处理”）。相关：污染物 (1934)。相关条目及更多
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