陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

contaminate/ defile/ filthy/ hygienic/ immaculate/ lather/ pollutant/ rinse/ sanitary/ scrub/ smudge/ sordid/ squalid/ taint

1. 「汙穢的」、「骯髒的」可用filthy、sordid或squalid：

•Take away your filthy boots!

•You will see a lot of filthy streets in big cities.

•The mendicant lived in a sordid hut.

•Sordid motives breed selfish actions.

•It is easy to see how crime can breed in such a squalid neighborhood.

2. 「汙染」可用contaminate，食物「腐壞」、道德人格「敗壞」等可用taint，使美感「遭到破壞」或人「變得不純淨」可用defile：

•Don't eat this cake; it may have been contaminated by cockroaches.

•The sewage system of the city so contaminated the water that swimming was forbidden.

•The river was contaminated by waste from the factory.

•Our students are being contaminated by foreign ideas.

•The warm weather has tainted this meat.

•His good reputation was tainted by the scandal.

•Despite the extreme financial difficulty that was confronting him, the father refused to use the tainted money his son had earned.

•His character has been tainted with dishonesty.

•Our beautiful country is being defiled by advertising signs.

•It's a shame that such a beautiful area has been defiled by a rubbish dump.

•Evil books defile the mind.

3. 「汙染物」叫pollutant，「汙漬」叫smudge：

•Our rivers are full of pollutants from the factories along the banks.

•Cheap carbon paper makes smudges easily.

4. 「乾乾淨淨的」、「一塵不染的」叫immaculate，「不會危害健康的」、「衛生的」可用hygienic或sanitary：

•The cadets wore immaculate uniforms as they lined up for inspection.

•The seamy side of the city has very poor hygienic conditions.

•Sanitary inspection will be done to restaurants twice a year.

5. 「用肥皂水清洗」叫lather，「用清水沖洗」叫rinse，「用力刷洗」叫 scrub：

•He lathers his face before shaving.

•You must rinse the soap out of your hair.

•She scrubbed the shirt to remove the spot.

•After cooking and eating, she hates to scrub the pots and pans, and leaves the task to her husband.