单词 | polluter |
释义 | pol·lut·er /pəˈluːtə $ -ər/ noun [countable] a person or organization that causes pollution 造成污染者,污染单位;污染源 The polluter should pay for the cost of the clean-up. 造成污染者应该缴付清理费用。big/major/main etc polluter a list of Canada’s worst polluters 加拿大最严重污染单位名单Examples from the Corpuspolluter• In the South-West, 90 polluters were fined a total of £23,000, mostly for illegally high discharges of agricultural slurry.• He typically determines the nature and level of the demands to be made of a polluter.• The Environmental Protection Agency could not collect an average of $ 8 million a day in fines and Superfund settlements against polluters.• The secretive negotiations between administrators and polluters meant there was no public accountability.• The defence and energy departments, impervious to markets, are among the country's biggest polluters.• Increasingly, the courts search for past polluters and pass the bill to them.• All others should be brought up to modern standards using the principle that the polluter pays.big/major/main etc polluter• The water authorities thus not only set and enforce pollution standards, they are major polluters themselves.• The defence and energy departments, impervious to markets, are among the country's biggest polluters.pol·lut·er nounChineseSyllable causes organization a Corpus that pollution person or |
随便看 |
|
英汉双解词典包含236457条英汉翻译词条,涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法,是英语学习的必备工具。