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HSK
to pollute; to contaminate (lit. and fig.)
HSK 5
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  *染* | 染* | *染
to dye / to catch (a disease) / to acquire (bad habits etc) / to contaminate / to add color washes to a painting
HSK 5
to infect / contagious
HSK 7-9
to infect; infection / (fig.) to influence
HSK 7-9
infectiousness (of a disease) / appeal; power; impact (of an image, marketing message, performance etc)
HSK 7-9
infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
HSK 7-9
printing and dyeing
dye
rendering (computing) / to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting) / to exaggerate / to embellish
dye
to tie-dye
to be contaminated / to be gradually influenced
(idiom) untainted by even a speck of dust; spotlessly clean; (of a person) honest; incorruptible
chromosome
to dye one's hair / rinse / tint
to dip a finger (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie / to get a share of the action / abbr. for 染指於鼎|染指于鼎
batik (color printing on cloth using wax)
to touch up (a piece of writing) / to add details (to a painting)
to pollute (often fig.) / to be infected by / to gain a small advantage
dyeing and weaving
to exert a gradual influence / to nurture / a corrupting influence
to dye cloth
to catch an illness / to get infected with a disease
to bleach and dye
to infect / to influence / to dip (in ink)
to be influenced
relief shading (in a picture) / fig. to throw into relief
to smudge (become smeared) / to smudge (create a blurred effect) / shading (wash painting technique)
to catch (a disease) / to get (a bad habit)
tinge
viral infection
air pollution
highlight (hair) / partial hair dye
infected person
water pollution
to have an affair with sb
pollutant
discharge
pad dyeing
environmental pollution
lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) / fig. to be principled and incorruptible
contamination
infectious; contagious / infectiousness; transmissibility
air pollution / atmospheric pollution
chromosome / genetic material of chromosome
radioactive contamination
big dyeing vat / (fig.) corrupting environment
hair dye / rinse / tint
infective diarrhea
polytene chromosome
laboratory infection
number of infected persons
radioactive contaminant
dye factory / dye-works
lit. dirty finger, mouth watering (idiom); fig. greedy to seize sth
residual contamination
water pollution
mixed infection
Wright's stain (used in studying blood)
decontamination
upper respiratory tract infection
cross-infection
source of an infection
epidemiology
azoic dyes
noise pollution
autosomal chromosome / autosome / autosomal
rate of infection (usu. of a disease)
radioactive contamination
lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie / to get a share of the action
trisomy
ploidy (number of homologous chromosomes)
bad habits / to get into bad habits through long custom
mother-to-infant transmission
contaminated area
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
contamination control
commercial laundry / cleaners
Wright's stain (used in studying blood)
secondary infection
pressure roller used in dyeing trough
Gram stain (used to distinguished two different kinds of bacteria)
droplet infection (disease transmission from sneezing, coughing etc)


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