rubbish
翻译
垃圾, 废话, 劣质品
例句
Please take out the rubbish.
请把垃圾拿出去。
He's talking absolute rubbish.
他说的全是废话。
语法模式
a pile of ((rubbish)) 一堆垃圾 There's a pile of rubbish on the street.
to talk ((rubbish)) 说废话 He's talking absolute rubbish.
近义词
同义词: trash, garbage, refuse (垃圾); nonsense, drivel (胡说).
词源
源自盎格鲁-诺曼语“rubous”,起源不详。可能与“rubble”(碎石)有关。
记忆技巧
在美式英语中,“trash”或“garbage”更常用来指代废弃物。“Rubbish”通常用来指“无稽之谈”,听起来有点英式。