taint是什么意思

双语用例

• 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.