| 词汇 | taint |
| 释义 | taint verb[ T ] uk /teɪnt/ us /teɪnt/ to spoil something or give it an unpleasant quality: （通过添加有害物质而）污染（食品、血液等）；玷污，败坏 His reputation was permanently tainted by the financial scandal.那起财务丑闻让他一辈子声名狼藉。 He warned of toxins such as mercury tainting some fish. His first term of office was tainted by scandal. We don't want people out there tainting our reputation. It was found that the groundwater had been tainted with a string of toxins. Damaging and spoiling adulterant adulterate adulterated adulteration applecart butcher drive a wedge between someoneidiom dry rot eat eat away at something erode foul put something out of jointidiom queer rain on someone's paradeidiom rampage ravage seismic sour wreck taint noun[ Cusually singular, U ] uk /teɪnt/ us /teɪnt/ the act or result of spoiling something or giving it an unpleasant quality: He managed to escape the worst taint of the Watergate scandal. The enquiry cleared him of any taint of suspicion/dishonesty. People caught with less than an ounce of marijuana might avoid the taint of a criminal record. The air bore the taint of oily air-conditioning. As deaths among those taking the drug mounted, the FDA discovered the taint and banned the contaminated drug. Damaging reputation anti-defamation aspersion besmirch black mark blacken blot defamatory defame demonize dog drag someone's name through the mire/mudidiom hatchet job scurrility scurrilous scurrilously self-immolation show someone in a bad lightidiom slur smear tarnish taint | American Dictionarytaint verb[ T ] us/teɪnt/ to damage the quality, taste, or value of something: Bacteria had tainted the meat. His reputation was permanently tainted by the scandal. taintnoun[ U ]us/teɪnt/ The taint of scandal followed him for years. Examples of tainttaint On the other hand, purists felt that such commercialization tainted the true pursuit of natural philosophy. Released from its own taint, prenatal testing could more effectively facilitate women's reproductive freedom and the many important ways that freedom ramifies through women's lives. Unlike poverty, disability is seen as a taint that is difficult or impossible to purge. The work of their predecessors was tainted, either by censorship of what they wrote or - more seriously - by political control of the basic research itself. The reputation of the violin was tainted by its connection with travelling musicians. For some people, the symbol of the nation, the dynasty, was threatened and in danger of becoming tainted. It was tainted by association with small farmers and commoners, and was a nuisance to estate proprietors. They are a reflection of the perpetrators' self-image based on the desire for exculpation and tainted by retrospection. No hint of dishonesty, let alone criminality, had ever tainted the family. First, there were those who considered children to be 'little devils', tainted by original sin. Rainwater drained from the hut roofs into tanks was sometimes tainted with salt and fragments of seaweed after gales. All art in the novel, including this phase of charitable art, is tainted by its association with treacherous fashionable society. If this is the case, the shareholders' (pensioners) consent to rules voted by pension fund managers is ' tainted ' by a conflict of interest. There's also as construct to convert tainted data to un-tainted form so that dangerous functions can be used on it. The feeling that all doubtful subjects were tainted by association with each other was very strong among scientists. 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. |
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