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noun teɪntteɪnt 1A trace of a bad or undesirable substance or quality. 品质恶劣的迹象，污点；污迹 the lingering taint of creosote 杂酚久久不去的难闻气味。 the taint of corruption which adhered to the government 政府一直摆脱不掉的腐败污点。 Example sentencesExamples - Nevertheless, she's skeptical that new guidelines will free the public system of the taint of private interest.
- It is as clean as the newest and freshest rubber, you can throw it over the daintiest lady's dress with perfect safety, you can hang it in the same closet with your evening clothes and get no taint of odor.
- Although it is profitable and growing fast, the company is only now shaking off the taint of six straight years of losses and a cashflow crisis that almost finished it off two years ago.
- Many Scottish Criminal Records Office staff also support such an inquiry so that, by identifying the guilty, the taint of suspicion can be lifted from the innocent.
- Most importantly, as a place to write music, a console doesn't have that taint of school or music-lesson.
- It would be wise for the ruling party to remember that it is not completely free of the taint of corruption.
- All of the farmers whose stories appear here purchased their farms under the present regime, free of any taint of colonialism.
- It is sad that the taint of financial jiggery-pokery should besmirch his image as he leaves office, and very unfair.
- In the end it was the taint of sleaze that destroyed his reputation.
- And therefore, Dorothy Dunnett is absolved of any taint of anachronism.
- While such a grand opening establishes Tripper's orchestral sweep, the rustic harmonium that follows dismisses any taint of pretension.
- She should have the best of forage, the purest of water, the cleanest and best of ventilated stables, and the air should be free from any taint of noxious vapors - in a word, the entire environment of this faithful animal should be as carefully and honestly protected as though she was human and not brute.
- You probably know this, but Rousseau argues that we're all born good, without taint of sin, and society inexorably corrupts us.
- Only if racing is conducted free of the taint of corruption will the sport survive and prosper.
- Two decades on, Wednesdays, for me, still carry the unwelcome taint of gym class and I hate being so far away from managing what other people seem to find so simple.
- We regard flawed things all the time - is the smallest taint of offensiveness reason enough to condemn something?
- Obviously, schools are unwilling to risk employing individuals who might carry the taint of suspicion, even if it is unfounded.
- The financing of political activity and membership of parliament should be both open to scrutiny and free of any taint of special favour.
- Although Luna Papa strives for a balance of laughs and drama, the taint of human cruelty and violence is so strong that many of the comedic elements feel forced.
- In 1948 he and a group of friends from his rarefied social circle started Mad River Glen about 25 miles away, vowing to preserve their creation from all taint of vulgarity.
- Jung says the company hasn't suffered any taint from scandals elsewhere.
- There was a taint of black spot within the clear white crystal.
Synonyms trace, touch, suggestion, hint, tinge, tincture smear, stain, blot, blemish, slur, stigma, tarnish, scar, black mark, spot, imperfection, flaw, fault, defect, blot on one's escutcheon discredit, dishonour, disgrace, shame - 1.1 Something with a contaminating influence or effect.
the taint that threatens to stain most of the company's other partners 威胁到公司绝大部分的合作伙伴名誉的劣迹。 Example sentencesExamples - But then there's taints and stigmas and you get passed from new boss to new boss and nobody really knows what your situation is and I think you just become a bit of a blur on their system.
- What its creative accounting can't do, though, is wash the taint off the network following this little advertising stunt.
- What's being to protect our foodstuffs against taint and what can we expect to be the symptoms of such a thing?
- Yet the reputation is so strong that some people in south Surrey claim to live in neighbouring White Rock, or mention their Crescent Beach neighbourhood rather than the actual city it's part of, to avoid the taint.
- Right now, the judge has got to see that there's a possibility of some taint to this jury pool.
- As always, she was dressed plainly in a black garment that shifted unnaturally, almost as if the touch of her skin would leave some dread taint.
- I feel contaminated by it, almost as if it's a taint upon my soul.
- The publication of Quantum Leaps is not a fluke; rather it is an exceptionally clear manifestation of the taint, stigma, and taboo surrounding the paranormal.
- Jaehli stood up abruptly, rubbing her hands on her pants as if trying to remove some imaginary taint. * Ugh!
- If the fever did not kill him, this magical taint surely would!
- One wants to keep this area, as it were, as free of taint as far as one can.
- But that transition can be a difficult one - today's fame will never disappear, but its sparkle may curdle into a taint.
- I mean, Celine Dion - there's no taint right now to playing Vegas.
- The three sculptures on show have a macabre taint but, in each piece, the nightmarish quality resonates at a different pitch.
- Assimilation, with or without conversion to the majority faith, might succeed in masking this bedrock taint; it could not expunge it.
- The problem is that I am apparently carrying a taint.
- Secondly, once there had been illegal maintenance the proceedings were irretrievably tainted; the taint could not be purged except by discontinuing the proceedings and bringing a fresh action.
- Hannah picked, noticing how the tone of her voice had taken a sort of offensive taint.
- But what is a taint at the Centre is not a taint in the States.
- A low level of taint will disappear in a few minutes.
Synonyms blemish, injury, blot, blot on one's escutcheon, slur, smear, discredit, dishonour, stigma
verb teɪntteɪnt [with object]1Contaminate or pollute (something) 污染 the air was tainted by fumes from the cars 空气被汽车排出的废气所污染。 Example sentencesExamples - Pollution from Asia can taint the air along the West Coast of the U.S., said scientists on Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- The ash taints my skin and the torn sack cloth enshrouds my weakened body
- The results showed 17.2 percent of the 169 aircraft carried water tainted with total coliform bacteria.
- The stony surface was tainted with red iron and calcium, something that I had learned in school.
- Even our fruits and vegetables get contaminated by these pathogens through exposure to tainted fertilizers and sewage sludge.
- The substitute eliminates the problem of donated blood being tainted by infections or impurities.
- Pollution, noise, tainted food, plastics, celebrity boxing - we live in an alarmingly toxic environment.
- As discussed, transmission can occur through tainted blood transfusions as well as through intravenous drug use.
- Salt water edged into the aquifer, tainting the drinking water of the burgeoning urban areas.
- Both of us were sick, after eating some tainted chocolate.
- Lab tests showed that the birds ate grain tainted with insecticide.
- And for those of us who prefer not to have our food tainted with someone else's tobacco smoke, there will be no smoking in the building, except in the bar.
- Many days passed with the ratio of foam to liquid within the soda changing in favor of an inevitable cataclysmic explosion that would ruin and taint all other foods within the refrigerator.
- The residents claim that fish caught in local waters are tainted with oil deposits from the refinery.
- Whether it's radiation unleashed or tainted food, how can we prevent harmful substances from being released into the environment?
- Strains of resistant bacteria and viruses are grown and spread through overuse of antibiotics, and growth hormones taint the meat and cause deformities.
- The best way to avoid eating food tainted with toxic chemicals was to buy certified organic produce, Dixon argued.
- Once the contaminated meat leaves the processing plants, the consumer really is in trouble - as there is effectively no way to work out whether the meat is tainted or safe.
- The buttons on lifts, tainted with vague trails of dried-up fluids, never escape her consciousness.
- A meat processing plant in Southern California mixed ground beef tainted with E. coli with other ground beef.
Synonyms contaminate, pollute, adulterate, infect, blight, befoul, spoil, soil, ruin, destroy - 1.1 Affect with a bad or undesirable quality.
品质恶劣的迹象，污点；污迹 his administration was tainted by scandal 他的管理因丑闻而名声败坏。 Example sentencesExamples - He placed his arrow tainted with a poison, which instantly knocks out a target, on his bow.
- He's smart and energetic and he's never been tainted by corruption or scandal.
- These pictures, all very considerable exercises in the craft of painting, are, for us, tainted by an unreality which can seem pernicious.
- While I find the very premise of the show irritating at best, this conclusive season promises to be tainted by an unintended melancholy on top of everything else.
- But some of the most prominent have been tainted by scandal.
- The start of health was meant to be yesterday but after my muesli breakfast I forgot my bag of Tupperware, not on purpose, and so had to taint myself with the poison which is sandwiches and crisps for lunch.
- His continued presence in government taints it with the noxious smell of cronyism.
- Small dashes of bright primary and secondary colour taint the heavier earth tones, but recede into the moody hues of the whole at a distance.
- She also trawls memories of her own childhood - her mother's accidental death, tainted with scandal, and her father collapsing in on himself.
- So it would have been reasonable to assume that she may have carried with her an air of confidence, even arrogance, that seems to taint every successful artist once the cash starts rolling in.
- The words were like poison, sinking beneath my skin and tainting me.
- Both tainted by scandal, they are also the most polarizing figures from each of their respective parties.
- They stood in wait, a touch of nervousness undeniably tainting the air around them.
- In context though, the trite lyrics never taint the record's abundant qualities.
- Information collected by pollsters could be tainted by biases of survey questions as well as the biases of the pollsters themselves, said Heywood.
- Do you feel at all that your season has been slightly tainted now by this scandal?
- Even those whose intentions are purely altruistic do not want to risk being tainted by accusations of trying to buy influence.
- The market has been tainted with poor quality products, dismal performance and overwhelming disappointment.
- You have two icons and one is pure and idealized, the other is tainted and dirtied.
- In particular, the workhouse was a shame that affected anyone tainted with its brush no matter what their birth.
Synonyms tarnish, sully, blacken, stain, besmirch, smear, blot, blemish, stigmatize, mar, corrupt, defile, soil, muddy, foul, dirty, damage, injure, harm, hurt, debase, infect, poison, vitiate, drag through the mud, blot one's copybook brand - 1.2archaic no object (of food or water) become contaminated or polluted.
〈古〉（食品，水）被污染 the rennet should be soaked in water containing sufficient salt to keep it from tainting Example sentencesExamples - When ice is covered, odors will accumulate and the food will taint.
- One such recommends using an old 'fridge for smoking, "but be careful not to get it too hot or the food will taint from the burning plastic!"
Synonyms become sour, go sour, go off, sour, curdle, become rancid, go bad, spoil
OriginMiddle English (as a verb in the sense 'convict, prove guilty'): partly from Old French teint 'tinged', based on Latin tingere 'to dye, tinge'; partly a shortening of attaint. Rhymesacquaint, ain't, attaint, complaint, constraint, distraint, faint, feint, paint, plaint, quaint, restraint, saint nounteɪntteɪnt US vulgar slang Origin1950s: from the contraction of it ain't in humorous phrases referring to the perineum’s position on the body, characterized as being neither the anus nor the genitals. nountāntteɪnt 1A trace of a bad or undesirable quality or substance. 品质恶劣的迹象，污点；污迹 the taint of corruption that adhered to the regime 政府一直摆脱不掉的腐败污点。 Example sentencesExamples - Although Luna Papa strives for a balance of laughs and drama, the taint of human cruelty and violence is so strong that many of the comedic elements feel forced.
- Two decades on, Wednesdays, for me, still carry the unwelcome taint of gym class and I hate being so far away from managing what other people seem to find so simple.
- It would be wise for the ruling party to remember that it is not completely free of the taint of corruption.
- It is as clean as the newest and freshest rubber, you can throw it over the daintiest lady's dress with perfect safety, you can hang it in the same closet with your evening clothes and get no taint of odor.
- We regard flawed things all the time - is the smallest taint of offensiveness reason enough to condemn something?
- Obviously, schools are unwilling to risk employing individuals who might carry the taint of suspicion, even if it is unfounded.
- While such a grand opening establishes Tripper's orchestral sweep, the rustic harmonium that follows dismisses any taint of pretension.
- Although it is profitable and growing fast, the company is only now shaking off the taint of six straight years of losses and a cashflow crisis that almost finished it off two years ago.
- Nevertheless, she's skeptical that new guidelines will free the public system of the taint of private interest.
- Only if racing is conducted free of the taint of corruption will the sport survive and prosper.
- Most importantly, as a place to write music, a console doesn't have that taint of school or music-lesson.
- You probably know this, but Rousseau argues that we're all born good, without taint of sin, and society inexorably corrupts us.
- There was a taint of black spot within the clear white crystal.
- In 1948 he and a group of friends from his rarefied social circle started Mad River Glen about 25 miles away, vowing to preserve their creation from all taint of vulgarity.
- And therefore, Dorothy Dunnett is absolved of any taint of anachronism.
- Jung says the company hasn't suffered any taint from scandals elsewhere.
- All of the farmers whose stories appear here purchased their farms under the present regime, free of any taint of colonialism.
- The financing of political activity and membership of parliament should be both open to scrutiny and free of any taint of special favour.
- In the end it was the taint of sleaze that destroyed his reputation.
- She should have the best of forage, the purest of water, the cleanest and best of ventilated stables, and the air should be free from any taint of noxious vapors - in a word, the entire environment of this faithful animal should be as carefully and honestly protected as though she was human and not brute.
- It is sad that the taint of financial jiggery-pokery should besmirch his image as he leaves office, and very unfair.
- Many Scottish Criminal Records Office staff also support such an inquiry so that, by identifying the guilty, the taint of suspicion can be lifted from the innocent.
Synonyms trace, touch, suggestion, hint, tinge, tincture - 1.1 A thing whose influence or effect is perceived as contaminating or undesirable.
污点 the taint that threatens to stain most of the company's other partners 威胁到公司绝大部分的合作伙伴名誉的劣迹。 Example sentencesExamples - As always, she was dressed plainly in a black garment that shifted unnaturally, almost as if the touch of her skin would leave some dread taint.
- What's being to protect our foodstuffs against taint and what can we expect to be the symptoms of such a thing?
- The publication of Quantum Leaps is not a fluke; rather it is an exceptionally clear manifestation of the taint, stigma, and taboo surrounding the paranormal.
- But then there's taints and stigmas and you get passed from new boss to new boss and nobody really knows what your situation is and I think you just become a bit of a blur on their system.
- Secondly, once there had been illegal maintenance the proceedings were irretrievably tainted; the taint could not be purged except by discontinuing the proceedings and bringing a fresh action.
- If the fever did not kill him, this magical taint surely would!
- I mean, Celine Dion - there's no taint right now to playing Vegas.
- A low level of taint will disappear in a few minutes.
- Right now, the judge has got to see that there's a possibility of some taint to this jury pool.
- The three sculptures on show have a macabre taint but, in each piece, the nightmarish quality resonates at a different pitch.
- Assimilation, with or without conversion to the majority faith, might succeed in masking this bedrock taint; it could not expunge it.
- One wants to keep this area, as it were, as free of taint as far as one can.
- But that transition can be a difficult one - today's fame will never disappear, but its sparkle may curdle into a taint.
- But what is a taint at the Centre is not a taint in the States.
- Yet the reputation is so strong that some people in south Surrey claim to live in neighbouring White Rock, or mention their Crescent Beach neighbourhood rather than the actual city it's part of, to avoid the taint.
- What its creative accounting can't do, though, is wash the taint off the network following this little advertising stunt.
- The problem is that I am apparently carrying a taint.
- Jaehli stood up abruptly, rubbing her hands on her pants as if trying to remove some imaginary taint. * Ugh!
- Hannah picked, noticing how the tone of her voice had taken a sort of offensive taint.
- I feel contaminated by it, almost as if it's a taint upon my soul.
Synonyms blemish, injury, blot, blot on one's escutcheon, slur, smear, discredit, dishonour, stigma - 1.2 An unpleasant smell.
难闻的气味 the lingering taint of creosote 杂酚久久不去的难闻气味。 Example sentencesExamples - She should have the best of forage, the purest of water, the cleanest and best of ventilated stables, and the air should be free from any taint of noxious vapors - in a word, the entire environment of this faithful animal should be as carefully and honestly protected as though she was human and not brute.
- It is as clean as the newest and freshest rubber, you can throw it over the daintiest lady's dress with perfect safety, you can hang it in the same closet with your evening clothes and get no taint of odor.
Synonyms trace, touch, suggestion, hint, tinge, tincture
verbtāntteɪnt [with object]1Contaminate or pollute (something) 污染 the air was tainted by fumes from the cars 空气被汽车排出的废气所污染。 Example sentencesExamples - The best way to avoid eating food tainted with toxic chemicals was to buy certified organic produce, Dixon argued.
- Salt water edged into the aquifer, tainting the drinking water of the burgeoning urban areas.
- The ash taints my skin and the torn sack cloth enshrouds my weakened body
- The stony surface was tainted with red iron and calcium, something that I had learned in school.
- Once the contaminated meat leaves the processing plants, the consumer really is in trouble - as there is effectively no way to work out whether the meat is tainted or safe.
- And for those of us who prefer not to have our food tainted with someone else's tobacco smoke, there will be no smoking in the building, except in the bar.
- A meat processing plant in Southern California mixed ground beef tainted with E. coli with other ground beef.
- The results showed 17.2 percent of the 169 aircraft carried water tainted with total coliform bacteria.
- The buttons on lifts, tainted with vague trails of dried-up fluids, never escape her consciousness.
- Pollution from Asia can taint the air along the West Coast of the U.S., said scientists on Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Strains of resistant bacteria and viruses are grown and spread through overuse of antibiotics, and growth hormones taint the meat and cause deformities.
- Both of us were sick, after eating some tainted chocolate.
- The residents claim that fish caught in local waters are tainted with oil deposits from the refinery.
- Pollution, noise, tainted food, plastics, celebrity boxing - we live in an alarmingly toxic environment.
- The substitute eliminates the problem of donated blood being tainted by infections or impurities.
- Lab tests showed that the birds ate grain tainted with insecticide.
- Whether it's radiation unleashed or tainted food, how can we prevent harmful substances from being released into the environment?
- As discussed, transmission can occur through tainted blood transfusions as well as through intravenous drug use.
- Many days passed with the ratio of foam to liquid within the soda changing in favor of an inevitable cataclysmic explosion that would ruin and taint all other foods within the refrigerator.
- Even our fruits and vegetables get contaminated by these pathogens through exposure to tainted fertilizers and sewage sludge.
Synonyms contaminate, pollute, adulterate, infect, blight, befoul, spoil, soil, ruin, destroy - 1.1 Affect with a bad or undesirable quality.
品质恶劣的迹象，污点；污迹 his administration was tainted by scandal 他的管理因丑闻而名声败坏。 Example sentencesExamples - While I find the very premise of the show irritating at best, this conclusive season promises to be tainted by an unintended melancholy on top of everything else.
- You have two icons and one is pure and idealized, the other is tainted and dirtied.
- She also trawls memories of her own childhood - her mother's accidental death, tainted with scandal, and her father collapsing in on himself.
- He's smart and energetic and he's never been tainted by corruption or scandal.
- In particular, the workhouse was a shame that affected anyone tainted with its brush no matter what their birth.
- In context though, the trite lyrics never taint the record's abundant qualities.
- So it would have been reasonable to assume that she may have carried with her an air of confidence, even arrogance, that seems to taint every successful artist once the cash starts rolling in.
- The words were like poison, sinking beneath my skin and tainting me.
- Both tainted by scandal, they are also the most polarizing figures from each of their respective parties.
- Even those whose intentions are purely altruistic do not want to risk being tainted by accusations of trying to buy influence.
- But some of the most prominent have been tainted by scandal.
- Information collected by pollsters could be tainted by biases of survey questions as well as the biases of the pollsters themselves, said Heywood.
- The market has been tainted with poor quality products, dismal performance and overwhelming disappointment.
- These pictures, all very considerable exercises in the craft of painting, are, for us, tainted by an unreality which can seem pernicious.
- The start of health was meant to be yesterday but after my muesli breakfast I forgot my bag of Tupperware, not on purpose, and so had to taint myself with the poison which is sandwiches and crisps for lunch.
- Do you feel at all that your season has been slightly tainted now by this scandal?
- They stood in wait, a touch of nervousness undeniably tainting the air around them.
- He placed his arrow tainted with a poison, which instantly knocks out a target, on his bow.
- His continued presence in government taints it with the noxious smell of cronyism.
- Small dashes of bright primary and secondary colour taint the heavier earth tones, but recede into the moody hues of the whole at a distance.
Synonyms tarnish, sully, blacken, stain, besmirch, smear, blot, blemish, stigmatize, mar, corrupt, defile, soil, muddy, foul, dirty, damage, injure, harm, hurt, debase, infect, poison, vitiate, drag through the mud, blot one's copybook - 1.2archaic no object (of food or water) become contaminated or polluted.
〈古〉（食品，水）被污染 Example sentencesExamples - When ice is covered, odors will accumulate and the food will taint.
- One such recommends using an old 'fridge for smoking, "but be careful not to get it too hot or the food will taint from the burning plastic!"
Synonyms become sour, go sour, go off, sour, curdle, become rancid, go bad, spoil
OriginMiddle English (as a verb in the sense ‘convict, prove guilty’): partly from Old French teint ‘tinged’, based on Latin tingere ‘to dye, tinge’; partly a shortening of attaint. nountāntteɪnt US vulgar slang Origin1950s: from the contraction of it ain't in humorous phrases referring to the perineum’s position on the body, characterized as being neither the anus nor the genitals. |