contaminate
英 [kən'tæmɪneɪt]
美 [kən'tæmɪnet]
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contaminate 污染con-, 强调。-tam, 接触，来自-tag变体，词源同tactile, tangible。即被接触过的，被污染的。
- contaminate
- contaminate: [15] Contaminate appears to come from the same ultimate source as contact, a base *tag- ‘touch’, which produced the Latin verb tangere ‘touch’ (whence English tactile, tangent, and tangible). It seems also to have formed the basis of a compound Latin noun *contagmen ‘contact, pollution’, which became altered to contāmen. From this was derived the verb contamināre, whose past participle gave English contaminate.
=> contact, tactile, tangible - contaminate (v.)
- early 15c., from Old French contaminer, from Latin contaminatus, past participle of contaminare "to defile," from contamen "contact, pollution," from com- "together" (see com-) + *tag-, base of tangere "to touch" (see tangent (adj.)). Related: Contaminant (1934); contaminable.
- 1. One secret military unit tried to contaminate the drinking water of the refugees.
- 一个秘密军事分队企图污染难民的饮用水。
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- 2. All over the world, oil spills regularly contaminate coasts.
- 在世界各地，油溢出物经常污染着海岸。
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- 3. The sources of organisms that may contaminate the wound are numerous.
- 可以沾染伤口的细菌来源是很多的.
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- 4. White cells contaminate the red cell and platelet components.
- 白细胞会“污染”红细胞和血小板制品.
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- 5. Dispose of that nulear waste properly or it will contaminate the groundwater.
- 必须妥善处理那些核废料,不然就会造成地下水污染.
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