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英语单项知识的讲解与练习（82）

406. contaminate的用法

contaminate弄脏、污染、毒害；

例句：

①Contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

如果你弄脏了自己的环境，总有一天会窒息在你所丢弃的垃圾之中。

②They are contaminating the minds of our young people with these

subversive ideas.他们这些颠覆性的思想是对我们年轻人的精神污染。

③All over the world, oil spills regularly contaminate coasts.在世界各地，油溢出

物经常污染着海岸。

短语：a contaminated zone污染地带；be contaminated by被沾染；contaminate

food污染食物；contaminate the mind对精神的污染；

用法：①contaminate的基本意思是“把…弄脏”,可指化学污染,也可指普通的弄脏,

引申可指对人的思想进行“毒害”。后接名词或代词作宾语。

②contaminate常用于被动结构be contaminated with/ by，表示“被……所污染”。

如： The water in this part of the river is contaminated by sewage（下水道）.

练习：

①Now a paper in Science argues that organic chemicals in the rock come

mostly from ______ on earth rather than bacteria on Mars.

A. configuration B. constitution，constituent

C. condemnation,condemn D. contamination,contaminate

②Movie directors use music to _______ the action on the screen.

inate ment plate ment

③These books _____ the minds of our young people.

contaminated contaminating

inates inated

④_____ any fish _____ in the Arctic Ocean?

...contaminated ...been contaminated

...been contaminated ...contaminated

407. contradictory的用法