| 单词 | garbage |
| 释义 | garbage (once / 2009 pages) n If you throw it in the trash, you can call it garbage. Likewise, if something is so terrible you wish you could throw it in the trash, like a really bad movie, you can also call it garbage. Everything in your kitchen trash is garbage — essentially, it's anything that's useless. Garbage can include vegetable scraps, wadded-up paper, or even spoken gibberish. The origin of the word garbage is a little uncertain, though in the 15th century it was used to mean literally "giblets of a fowl," or the extra parts that weren't considered food. WORD FAMILYgarbage USAGE EXAMPLESIn America, each of us throws away more than seven pounds of garbage a day. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) Fisher, whose tough-talking princess defied Empire generals while tossing off one-liners like “Into the garbage chute, flyboy,” died Tuesday at age 60. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) Fisher, whose tough-talking princess defied Empire generals while tossing off one-liners such as “into the garbage chute, flyboy”, died on Tuesday. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1n food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) Syn|Hyper food waste, refuse, scraps waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted 2n a receptacle where waste can be discarded she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage Hyper receptacle a container that is used to put or keep things in 3n a worthless message Syn|Hypo|Hyper drivel buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-washnonsensical talk or writing pablum, papworthless or oversimplified ideas content, message, subject matter, substance what a communication that is about something is about |
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