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单词 rubbish collector
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rubbish collector
rubbish collector n.
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1858 H. Mayhew Upper Rhine iv. 180 These Ojibbeway-like, crackjaw titles, if rendered into English, would sound about as rational to plain British ears as would the designation of ‘Mr. Purveyor-of-Asses'-Milk-to-the-Royal-Family Dawkins,’ or ‘Mr. Dust-and-Rubbish-Collector-to-the-United-Parishes-of-St.-Pancras-and-Mary-le-bone Gore’.
1859 Daily News 25 Jan. 2/5 An attempt to introduce an improved system of cleansing, which would have interfered with the labour of chiffonniers, or rubbish collectors, was once made the occasion of riots.
1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon iii. 47 It was said that one [absent-minded scholar] had arrived at the college with his household rubbish after leaving his umbrella outside his gate to be collected by the rubbish-collector.
1991 New Scientist 29 June 52/1 Dishevelled in their rags, abuzz with flies and stinking of rotting rubbish, Cairo's rubbish collectors..have never found it easy to find friends.
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