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Rubbish Trash Garbage British I   [Informal 非正式 N Uncount

英语单词 rubbish
英美音标 英 ['rʌbɪʃ] 美 ['rʌbɪʃ]
中文释义 n.垃圾;废物;废话;碎屑
v.贬损
英语例句 (1) The dustman comes once a week to collect the rubbish.
(2) That new TV show is absolutely rubbish.
(3) He was gulled into buying rubbish.
(4) I thought he talked a lot of rubbish.
(5) The film was rubbished by the critics.
(6) The government's plan was rubbished by the opposition parties.
中文例句 (1) 垃圾工每周来收一次垃圾。
(2) 那个新的电视节目一点儿价值都没有。
(3) 他被骗买了废物。
(4) 我觉得他谈的都是些废话。
(5) 影评家把这部影片贬得一无是处。
(6) 政府的计划被反对党批得一钱不值。
vocabulary简明 Rubbish is a synonym for garbage or trash. The word is more commonly used by speakers of British English than by speakers of American English.
vocabulary扩展 The noun rubbish also means writing or speech that is worthless, untrue, or nonsense, especially in British English. Your teacher might tell you that your paper thesis is a load of rubbish if it states that Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt were aliens sent from another planet to "fix" World War II. In British slang, rubbish is also a verb that means to criticize strongly. Don't be surprised when the professor rubbishes your paper — he's a well-known Churchill scholar.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]垃圾;废弃物 Rubbish consists of unwanted things or waste material such as used paper, empty tins and bottles, and waste food.
  [mainly BRIT 主英]
  • ...unwanted household rubbish...

    无用的家庭垃圾

  • They had piled most of their rubbish into yellow skips.

    他们把大多数的垃圾堆到了黄色的废料桶里。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用garbage, trash
2
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]劣质物品;垃圾;废物 If you think that something is of very poor quality, you can say that it is rubbish .
  [BRIT 英]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • He described her book as absolute rubbish.

    他说她的书一文不值。

3
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]废话;胡说八道 If you think that an idea or a statement is foolish or wrong, you can say that it is rubbish .
  [mainly BRIT 主英]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • He's talking rubbish...

    他胡说八道。

  • These reports are total and utter rubbish.

    这些报告废话连篇。

4
[ADJ 形容词]极不擅长的;非常差劲的 If you think that someone is not very good at something, you can say that they are rubbish at it.
  [v-link ADJ]
  [BRIT 英]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • He was rubbish at his job...

    他的工作做得差劲极了。

  • I tried playing golf, but I was rubbish.

    我试过打高尔夫球,但是我的球技太烂了。

5
[VERB 动词]贬低;诋毁;将…说得一文不值 If you rubbish a person, their ideas or their work, you say they are of little value.
  [V n]
  [BRIT 英]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • Five whole pages of script were devoted to rubbishing her political opponents...

    整整5页讲稿都是对她的政敌的诋毁。

  • Officials have simply rubbished all positive ideas.

    官员们对所有的正面意见一律否决。

in AM, use 美国英语用 trash
Usage Note :

In British English, rubbish is the word most commonly used to refer to waste material that is thrown away. In American English, the words garbage and trash are more usual. ...the smell of rotting garbage... She threw the bottle into the trash. Garbage and trash are sometimes used in British English, but only informally and metaphorically. I don't have to listen to this garbage... The book was trash.

在英国英语中,rubbish最常用来表示丢弃的废物,但是在美国英语中garbage和trash更为常用,如:the smell of rotting garbage (腐烂垃圾的臭味),She threw the bottle into the trash (她把瓶子扔进了垃圾堆)。garbage和trash有时也在英国英语中使用,但仅限于非正式语体和比喻用法:I don't have to listen to this garbage (我不需要听这些废话),The book was trash (这本书简直是垃圾)。

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