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Contamination is when something clean or safe gets mixed with something dirty, harmful, or unwanted, and becomes unsafe or . You'll hear it about food, water, or air that has something bad in it, like chemicals or , that shouldn't be there.
汙染（東西被有害物質弄髒、變得不安全，常用在食物、水、空氣）
組成From Latin 'contaminare', to make impure by touching — con- (together/thoroughly) plus a root about touching or staining.
同家族的字
- contaminate同一個字根，動詞形式
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
contaminationnoun/kənˌtæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
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The act or process of contaminating.
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Something which contaminates.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
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etymologyhuman-scienceslinguisticsThe influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe intermingling of readings from multiple sources by a copyist.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。