喜樂美語

Picture clean water with something harmful poured into it: the water is still there, but it can no longer be drunk, and you cannot take the bad part back out. That is the shape of pollute - something whole and usable is spoiled from the inside by what has been let into it. English then uses the same shape for people and ideas: let the wrong thing in, and what was good stops working the way it did.

可以想成 pollute 的畫面是：乾淨的水裡被倒進了有害的東西——水還在，但已經不能喝了，而且那些髒東西再也撈不出來。這就是 pollute 的形狀：本來完好、可以用的東西，被放進去的東西從裡面壞掉。英文接著把同一個形狀套到人和想法上——讓不該進來的東西進來了，本來好的就不再是原來那樣。

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同家族的字

過去式 polluted過去分詞 polluted-ing polluting三單 pollutes

原始詞典資料5 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。

polluteverb/pəˈluːt/

  • 1

    To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.

    • The factory polluted the river when it cleaned its tanks.
  • 2

    To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor.

    • The lights from the stadium polluted the night sky, and we couldn't see the stars.
  • 3

    To corrupt or profane

    • But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
  • 4

    To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonour.

polluteadj/pəˈluːt/

  • 1

    rarePolluted; defiled.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。