There is a strong possibility that the cat contracted the condition by eating contaminated pet food.

有一种极大的可能性就是那只猫吃了受污染的宠物食品而染上了病。

When a carpet was contaminated, less than 1% of the bacteria were transferred.

当地毯被污染时，只有不到1%的细菌会被转移。

Fields across Europe are contaminated with dangerous levels of the antibiotics given to farm animals.

欧洲各地的农田都被注射给农场动物的抗生素污染到了危险水平。

More than 80% of those cases can be attributed to contact with contaminated water and a lack of proper sanitation.

其中80%以上的病例可归因于接触了受污染的水和缺乏适当的卫生设施。

Scientists therefore propose using sunflowers for decontamination wherever there are radioactively contaminated ponds.

因此，科学家建议，只要有受放射性污染的池塘，就可以用向日葵来消毒。

Sunflowers growing in pots were placed, with their roots submerged, in the pond contaminated with radioactive elements.

花盆里的向日葵浸没在被放射性元素污染的池塘里。

Research in my lab has focused on how food becomes contaminated, and we've done some work on this particular piece of wisdom.

我所在的实验室集中研究食物是如何被污染的，我们已经做了一些工作来研究这一人类智慧。

It looks like what's at issue is less how long your food stays on the floor and much more how contaminated with bacteria that patch of floor happens to be.

看起来问题的焦点不太在于你的食物在地上停留的时间长短，而更在于那块地被细菌污染到了什么程度。

The unusually high mortality rate among dolphin calves in the industrially contaminated waters along Florida's Gulf Coast is probably the result of their being poisoned by their mother's milk.

在佛罗里达海湾沿岸被工业污染的水域中，海豚幼崽异常高的死亡率可能是被它们母亲的乳汁毒害的结果。

After several years of cultivation and harvest, the site would be restored at a cost much lower than the price of excavation and reburial, the standard practice for remediation of contaminated soils.

经过几年的耕种和收获，该遗址将以远低于挖掘和重新掩埋费用的成本进行修复，这也是修复污染土壤的标准做法。

Have any fish been contaminated in the Arctic Ocean?

北冰洋里有鱼受到污染了吗?

The drinking water has become contaminated with lead.

饮用水被铅污染了。

Tests showed it was contaminated by listeria and other bacteria.

检测表明它感染有李斯特菌和其他细菌。

In 1960 some polio vaccine was contaminated with the virus.

1960年，一些脊髓灰质炎疫苗被病毒污染。

We wanted to know if the length of time food is in contact with a contaminated surface affected the rate of transfer of bacteria to the food.

我们想知道食物与被污染的表面接触的时间长短是否会影响细菌转移到食物上的速度。

This scenario begins with the planting of hyperaccumulating species in the target area, such as an abandoned mine or an irrigation pond contaminated by runoff.

这种情形始于在目标地区（如废弃矿井或被污水污染的灌溉池）种植超积累物种。

Attracting numbers of birds continually to the same spot can be harmful to them, particularly species that pick food from the ground contaminated by the droppings of other birds.

持续吸引大量的鸟类到同一地点对它们来说是有害的，尤其是那些在被其他鸟类粪便污染的土地上觅食的鸟类。

One version of this rare brain disorder is better known "Mad Cow" and can be contracted by eating contaminated beef.

这种罕见的大脑功能紊乱中的一种，被人们称为“疯牛病”，是因为吃了受到污染的牛肉而感染的。

The disease is transmitted when a person unwittingly rubs the contaminated faeces of infected triatomine bugs into wounds, their eyes or mouth.

当一个人无意间将受感染的锥蝽被污染的粪便揉进伤口、眼睛或嘴时便会导致该疾病传播。

In Maryland and Massachusetts, for example, patients have put contaminated items in the trash, and the trucks that collected it set off alarms at dumps.

例如，在马里兰州和马萨诸塞州，有些患者将被放射性污染过的废料投入垃圾堆，从而使运垃圾的卡车倾泻垃圾时响起了警报。

But even then, the water in the pipes tends to be radioactively contaminated because the valves that separate it from the reactor are not entirely tight.

但是即便如此，水管中的水也可能会存在放射性污染物，因为用于把水域反应堆隔开的阀门并不完全是密闭的。

Surprisingly, calcium supplements may be contaminated with lead, because the sources of calcium in supplements—like seashells or cow bones—are contaminated.

令人惊讶的是，钙的补充品中可能受到铅的污染，因为主要的钙补充品像海贝和牛骨都可能被污染。

It is transmitted exclusively when people who have little or no access to safe-drinking water supply swallow water contaminated with parasite-infected fleas.

该病的传播纯属当人们极少获得或者不能获得安全饮用水供应时饮用了含有受到寄生虫感染的蚤类的污染水。

Experts set up a water treatment facility where one community could come to collect clean water, instead of retrieving it from contaminated rivers or streams.

专家们在某社区设立了污水处理设施方便居民领取干净水，以避免从被污染的河流和小溪取水。

However, the researchers also found more than twice the number of bachelorette front doorknobs were contaminated with bacteria as compared with bachelor doorknobs.

然而，研究人员也发现，女子公寓门上的球形门把手更易被细菌污染，且污染几率是男子公寓门把手的两倍还多。

Staph bacteria contaminated nearly half of U.S. meat samples in a recent analysis, with 96 percent of bacteria showing resistance to at least one type of drug.

在最近的一份分析中，金黄色葡萄球菌感染了将近一半的美国肉类样品，其中96%的细菌表现出至少对一种药品的抗药性。

Answer: The findings suggest that some foods produced in Japan are likely to be contaminated by radioactive material at levels unsuitable for human consumption.

答：调查结果表明，日本生产的某些食品有可能因受到放射性物质的污染而不适于人类消费。

Officials late Sunday revealed that two more vegetables, canola and chrysanthemum greens, have also been found to be contaminated and in three more prefectures.

官员星期六晚上披露，另外两种蔬菜，油菜籽和蓬蒿菜，也被发现受到污染。 另外三个县也发现食品污染情况。

These have been mapped to an area inhabited by approximately 950 people, who are continuously exposed through ingestion and inhalation of lead-contaminated dust.

这一状况存在于一个由950人居住的区域，这里的人们通过摄入和吸入经过铅污染的尘埃，持续暴露在高铅环境中。