- 1攙假；攙偽
To adulterate food or drink is to make it less pure by adding something of lower quality. If a seller mixes cheap oil into expensive oil and still sells it as the good kind, they adulterate it.
To adulterate攙假 food or drink食物或飲料is就是by adding something of lower quality加入品質較差的東西to make it less pure讓它變得不純。If如果a seller賣家mixes cheap oil into expensive oil把便宜油混進貴的油裡and still sells it as the good kind還當成好油賣，they adulterate it他們就是在adulterate它。
The verb is quite formal: inspectors, lawyers, and newspapers use it. In ordinary English we almost always adulterate a product, not a person.
The verb這個動詞is quite formal相當正式：inspectors稽查員、lawyers律師、and newspapers和報紙use it都會用它。In ordinary English在一般英文裡we almost always adulterate a product我們幾乎都是說adulterate一項產品，not a person而不是一個人。
Though actually, the Latin idea was “to go after another” — the same family as adultery. Today those two roads have split: adulterate is about goods; adultery is about marriage.
Though actually不過其實，the Latin idea拉丁文原本的意思was就是“to go after another”「追隨另一個」— the same family as adultery跟adultery（通姦）同一個字源家族。Today如今those two roads have split這兩條路已經分開：adulterate is about goods攙假講的是商品；adultery is about marriage通姦講的是婚姻。
You will more often see the form adulterated (“adulterated milk”) than the bare verb.
You will more often see你會更常看到the form adulterated這個adulterated的形式（“adulterated milk”「摻假牛奶」）than the bare verb而不是原形動詞。
core核心畫面
組成From Latin adulteratus, from ad- (to, toward) + alter (other) + a verb ending, literally “to go after someone else.” In English it is also analysed as adultery + -ate.
同家族的字
- adulterationthe noun for the act or the result
- adulterantthe substance that is mixed in
- adulterysame Latin idea of turning to an “other”; today this word is about marriage, not food
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adulterateadj詞源 1/əˈdʌltəɹət/
- 1
archaicliteraryCorrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.
- Theſe, and other like places in abundance through all thoſe ſhort Epiſtles, muſt either be adulterat, or elſe Ignatius [of Antioch] was not Ignatius, nor a Martyr, but moſt adulterate, and corrupt himſelf.
- 2
archaicliteraryTending to commit adultery; relating to or being the product of adultery; adulterous.
- I am poſſeſt with an adulterate blot, / My bloud is mingled with the crime of luſt: [...]
- I [i.e., ay] that inceſtuous, that adulterate beaſt, / With witchcraft of his wits, with trayterous gifts, / O wicked wit, and giftes that haue the power / So to ſeduce; wonne to his ſhamefull luſt / The will of my moſt ſeeming vertuous Queene; [...]
adulterateverb詞源 2/əˈdʌltəɹeɪt/
- 1
archaicliteraryTo corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
- For thus, that King violated that Oath which he ought moſt religiouſly to have ſworn to; but that he might not ſeem openly and publickly to violate it, he craftily adulterated and corrupted it; and leaſt he himſelf ſhould be accounted perjur'd, he turn'd the very Oath into a Perjury. [...] And who durſt pervert and adulterate that Law which he thought the only Obſtacle that ſtood in his way, and hindred him from perverting all the reſt of the Laws?
- 2
archaicliteraryTo make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
- to adulterate coins, drugs, food and drink, etc.
- The present war has so adulterated our tongue with strange words, that it would be impossible for one of our great grandfathers to know what his posterity have been doing, were he to read their exploits in a modern newspaper.
- 3
archaicliteraryTo commit adultery with (someone).
- 4
archaicliteraryTo defile (someone) by adultery.
- Yet ſome would perſwade us, that this abſurd opinion was King Davids; becauſe in the 51st Pſalm he cries out to God, Againſt thee onely have I ſinn'd; as if David had imagin'd that to murder Uriah and adulterate his Wife, had bin no ſinn againſt his Neighbour, when as that Law of Moſes was to the King expreſly, Deut. 17. not to think ſo highly of himſelf above his Brethren.
- 5
archaicliteraryTo commit adultery.
- But Fortune, oh, / She is corrupted, chang’d, and wonne from thee, / Sh’adulterates hourely with thine Vnckle Iohn, / And with her golden hand hath pluckt on France / To tread downe faire reſpect of Soueraigntie, / And made his Maieſtie the bawd to theirs.
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