東西被弄髒了
這一支就是核心畫面本身，掉進去的是看得見或驗得出來的東西。
adjective · B2
Used about food, drink, water, blood or another substance that is not safe to use any more, because it has gone bad or because something harmful has got into it.
受污染的
核心畫面
You can think of tainted as one drop falling into something clean and spreading through it. The drop is small, and after a second you cannot see where it went — but you also cannot take it back out. From then on the whole thing is under suspicion, not just the part the drop landed on. That is why the word feels heavier than damaged: nothing has to be broken for everything to become .
tainted 可以想成是一滴東西掉進乾淨的水裡。那一滴很小，過一下子就看不見了。但它也拿不出來了。從那一刻起，整桶…更多收起
tainted 可以想成是一滴東西掉進乾淨的水裡。那一滴很小，過一下子就看不見了。但它也拿不出來了。從那一刻起，整桶水都會被懷疑，不是只有它掉下去的那一點。這也是為什麼這個字比「壞掉」更重：東西不必看起來壞，就已經不能用了。From the word’s history
The packet's source entry derives tainted from the verb taint plus -ed, so the word always describes a state that something else caused: it has been touched, and the touch stayed.
資料來源把 tainted 記成動詞 taint 加上 -ed。所以它描述的一直是「被弄過」之後的狀態，不是東西本來的樣子——重點不在它是什麼，而在有東西碰過它，而且碰過的痕跡留下來了。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:324009739): 'From taint + -ed.'
Three branches
名聲被弄髒了
掉進去的東西換成一件不乾淨的事，水換成一個人的名聲或一件事的來歷。
adjective · B2
Used about a person, a thing or a reputation that has been touched by something illegal, dishonest or morally wrong, so that people no longer fully trust it.
有污點的／不乾淨的
資料沒檢查過
資安圈直接借走這個畫面，拿它當一個可以拆掉的標記。
adjective · C1
In computer security, used about data that came from outside the program and has not been checked yet, so the program must treat it as unsafe.
未經檢查的（資料）