| 词汇 | adulterating |
| 释义 | adulterating present participle ofadulterate adulterate verb[ Tusually passive ] uk /əˈdʌl.tə.reɪt/ us /əˈdʌl.tə.reɪt/ to make food or drink weaker or to lower its quality, by adding something else: （在饮食中）掺杂，掺假 There were complaints that the beer had been adulterated with water.有多人投诉说这啤酒里面兑了水。 Damaging and spoiling adulterant adulterate adulterated adulteration applecart butcher degrade 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 wreck You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming and making less strong Related wordsadulterated adulteration Examples of adulteratingadulterating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. However, counterfeiting of coin is done to reap a profit, and the only way in which it can generate profit is by adulterating the coin with copper or lead. These led to generic transgression (adulterating a predominantly naturalistic play with musical comedy and music-hall techniques) and spatial transgression (breaking through the 'fourth wall' between actors and audience). At that selfsame court a few months later, before the same set of magistrates, a farmer was charged with adulterating milk and was fined £2. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A prerequisite for this, however, is that it must cease adulterating them with other short-sighted and selfish criteria. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English However, if they contain adulterating substances these must be identified. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I have no evidence of the use of adulterating material in any of these products. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If a farmer gets money dishonestly by adulterating milk, you do not blame all farmers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are just as capable—some would say more so—of adulterating food in the process of cooking and serving as is anyone involved with an earlier link on the chain. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, it was not very effective because of corruption and practices of adulterating the wheat. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Soon, however, it was discovered that the merchants were adulterating the grain rations to fully half their weight with sand or powdered bones. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Mega purple has raised some controversy within the wine consuming community as its use is considered to be akin to adulterating a wine. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He also attacked apothecaries, who had a reputation for adulterating and badly preparing medications. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Bakers who were caught tampering with weights or adulterating dough with less expensive ingredients could receive severe penalties. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This may have been due to the common practice of adulterating kerosene with cheaper but more volatile hydrocarbon mixtures, such as naphtha. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They not even shrank from adulterating their own history to achieve their aims which were not always the same as the bishops. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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