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B2to make anareaorsubstance, usuallyair,water, orsoil,dirtyorharmfultopeople,animals, andplants,especiallybyaddingharmfulchemicals: 污染 Thepesticidesused on manyfarmsare polluting thewatersupply.许多农场里使用的杀虫剂正在污染供水。 We won'tinvestin anycompanythat pollutes theenvironment.我们不会给污染环境的公司投资。 figurativeManycomplainthatbroadcasterspollute theairwaveswithsensationalismandsleaze.许多人抱怨说广播公司用耸人听闻的题材和低级庸俗的内容污染了无线电波。 - We shouldrespecttheenvironmentand not pollute it.
- Thefertilizersandpesticidesused on manyfarmsare polluting thewatersupply.
- Oil from thewreckedtankerpolluted more than 40milesof the Normandyshoreline.
- Thefundprovidesmoneytocleanupchemicallypollutedindustrialsites.
- Highconcentrationsoftoxicelementswerefoundin the pollutedareasof thesea.
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See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Making things dirty & untidy (Definition ofpollutefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)pollute| American Dictionaryto makeair,water, orearthdirtyorharmfultopeople,animals, andplants,esp. byaddingharmfulchemicalsorwaste: Chemicalfertilizersandpesticidesare polluting the groundwater. pollutant
Maybe there’s somekindofchemicalpollutant intheirdrinkingwater. (Definition ofpollutefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)pollute| Business EnglishENVIRONMENTto makewater, theair, orlanddirtyand notsafeforpeople,animals, andplants,especiallywithwasteorchemicals: You don't need to pollute theplanettogrowyoureconomy. Heexpectscoalplantsbuiltafter 2012 to beequippedwithtechnologyforcapturingandstoringcarbonemissionsso that they will not pollute. (Definition ofpollutefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofpollutepollute If one factory did notpollutethe water, downstream factories could use the same water and there would be no shortage.From theCambridge English Corpus However, intensities are also affected by changing prices of (or taxes on) polluting inputs into the production process.From theCambridge English Corpus More than 70 per cent of the surface water (rivers) near cities is polluted.From theCambridge English Corpus Heavily polluted means that the index is between 1 and 2, making the water unsuitable for body contact.From theCambridge English Corpus The realized pollution is determined jointly by the demand for polluting rights or environmental absorption capacity and the supply of these rights.From theCambridge English Corpus Given the fact that real asset price motion is polluted by noise, such a procedure seems to be reasonable.From theCambridge English Corpus One may object that function inlining and constant propagation are purely compiler issues and should notpollutethe module system.From theCambridge English Corpus With free trade, countries with a comparative advantage in pollution-intensive goods willpollutemore-giving them an advantage in the environmental bargaining game.From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, polluting assets can be retrofitted, or retired early.From theCambridge English Corpus This is a reasonable concept of convergence since, besides convergence of the eigenmodes, it also contains the information that no spurious eigenmodespollutethe spectrum.From theCambridge English Corpus He is himself contaminated, polluted, and must die.From theCambridge English Corpus Inlining annotations, however, couldpollutethe module interface with additional binding-time specifications.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, oil and other substances had polluted the adjoining land.From theCambridge English Corpus The parameter a can be interpreted as a technology index describing how polluting a given technology is.From theCambridge English Corpus Without loss of generality, we confine our attention to one such polluting product, assuming that the rest of the products in the economy are non-polluting.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/pollute## |