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polluted

/puh-loo-tid/US // pəˈlu tɪd //UK // (pəˈluːtɪd) //

被污染的,受污染的,污浊的,污染的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : made unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted: swimming in polluted waters.
    • : Slang. drunk.

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Examples

  • There wasn’t a strong connection between the age of a station and how polluted it was.

  • If it could be successfully recycled one day, that same polluted source would be valuable to a region like ours that’s prone to drought.

  • What makes this ever more complicated is the fact that because the water gets polluted in Mexico, the United States doesn’t know what’s in it.

  • A remote mountain that some consider pristine is polluted with microplastics, she says.

  • The state forester, Peter Daugherty, has denied any direct connection exists between clear-cutting and polluted drinking water.

  • In fact, commercial fishing has been suspended entirely because the lake is considered polluted.

  • Instead, he wanted viewers to grasp that “this spring from which Mother Courage drank death was a polluted one.”

  • Wetlands protected under the “Clean Water Act of 1972” are being polluted with birch beer precursor chemicals.

  • We know exactly which leaking tank polluted drinking water in southern West Virginia earlier this year.

  • “Sometimes I worry what these polluted bodies are doing to the environment, too,” he says.

  • Her prophets are senseless, men without faith: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have acted unjustly against the law.

  • You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee?

  • Before the door of the house were set branches of pine or cypress as a warning that the house was polluted by death.

  • Let it not be polluted with anything dead or impure, that your victuals, boiled in pure water, may be healthy.

  • Special provision is now made for the using of water that is polluted.