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单词 rubbish heap
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rubbish heap
rubbish heap n. (a) a heap of rubbish; a refuse tip; also figurative; (b) a heap of playing cards discarded during a game.
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1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids ix. 280 From all parts clamours rise, assaults are made, With rubbish heaps the dikes are levell laid.
1767 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener 335 Clear the beds very well from weeds and all litter, and carry the whole out to the rubbish heap.
1878 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 12 12 In the failures to ‘adjust’—in the rubbish-heap, according to Spenser—lies, for them, the real key to the truth.
c1887 M. W. Jones Games of Patience iii. 11 Lay out nine cards in three rows; then proceed to form a rubbish-heap.
1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 299 He very rarely went down into what had now become a rubbish-heap.
1959 ‘C. Fremlin’ Uncle Paul iv. 33 The five of spades would have to go on the rubbish heap after all.
1988 J. Kincaid Small Place 30 One of those smart people who..now, since the demise of the empire, have nothing to do; they look so sad, sitting on the rubbish heap of history.
2006 C. Mandell tr. B.-H. Lévy Amer. Vertigo (U.K. ed.) iii. 103 A group..of blacks were sleeping half naked near a rubbish heap.
extracted from rubbishn.adj.int.
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