🇬🇧🇨🇳 pollutant - 污染物 : English Lesson

Meaning of "pollutant" ("污染物"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A pollutant is anything that makes our air, water, or land dirty or unsafe. It can be smoke, trash, chemicals, or other harmful stuff that gets into nature and causes problems for people, animals, and plants. Pollutants can come from cars, factories, and even from people littering, which is why we work hard to reduce and clean them up.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

My baby cousin’s diaper created a mysterious air pollutant that cleared the room in five seconds.

The ocean wrote a complaint letter saying, “Please stop sending me plastic pollutants, I’m not a trash bin.”

The villain in my comic book doesn’t throw punches; he throws pollutants into perfectly clean rivers.

My science project showed how one tiny pollutant drop made the whole jar of water look like troll soup.

Some pollutants can travel thousands of miles in the air—so your campfire smoke might go on a longer vacation than you do.

At the river a child finds a fish stuck in black oil; the pollutant clings to its scales. A chimney's smoke is another pollutant, a leaking drum is a third pollutant, and a discarded bag is a fourth pollutant. Every pollutant stains water. The child cries, calls neighbors, and they wash the fish; the town sighs with relief.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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