单词	trash
释义	trash1 nountrash2 verb trashtrash1 /træʃ/ ●●● S3 noun [uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINtrash1 Origin: 1300-1400 From a Scandinavian language Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A trash bag slung over the shoulder, Santa-style. But they also know they are lucky to be in Lansing, picking up the trash. More trash movies adored by Hollywood? One day Tod took from the trash a framed certificate and went and hung it on the toilet doornail. Where would we be without all the trash? Thesaurus THESAURUS► rubbish especially British English things that people throw away, such as old food, dirty paper etc: · People are being encouraged to recycle their household rubbish.· the rubbish bin ► garbage/trash American English rubbish: · The garbage is collected every Tuesday.· There were piles of trash in the backyard.· a black plastic garbage bag ► refuse formal rubbish: · The strike has disrupted refuse collection.· It’s a site which is used for domestic refuse. ► litter empty bottles, pieces of paper etc that people have dropped on the ground: · Parents should teach children not to drop litter.· There was a lot of litter on the beach. ► waste rubbish, or materials that need to be dealt with after they have been used in industrial processes: · nuclear waste· toxic waste· household waste· The company was fined for dumping toxic waste in the sea. Longman Language Activatorto move over a surface while pressing against it► rubbish British all the paper, empty bottles, cans, pieces of food etc that you throw away: · The dustmen collect the rubbish on Wednesdays.· There was rubbish and broken glass all over the grass.put/take out the rubbish (=put it in a rubbish bin outside your house ready to be collected): · Don't forget to put the rubbish out before you go to bed.a rubbish bin (=a container for rubbish): · Two stolen paintings have been found dumped in a rubbish bin.rubbish dump/tip (=a large open area where people's rubbish is taken after it is collected): · I rescued this table from a rubbish dump. ► garbage/trash American all the paper, empty bottles, cans, pieces of food etc that you throw away: · There were piles of trash in the backyard.take out the garbage/trash (=put it in a garbage can outside your house ready to be collected): · I do all the chores, from picking up the groceries to taking out the garbage.garbage/trash can (=a container for garbage): · Will someone please empty this trash can!garbage truck (=a truck that takes away garbage): · Ken drives a garbage truck for a living. ► waste paper paper that you throw away, especially because it has been used: · There are two bins. One is for glass and one is for waste paper.waste paper binBritish /waste paper basket American: · She crumpled the letter up and put it in the waste paper basket. ► litter empty bottles, packets, and pieces of paper that people have dropped on the street or in a park: · These streets are full of litter.drop litter: · You can be fined £100 for dropping litter.pick up litter: · I am tired of picking up litter thrown by other people.litter binBritish /litter basket American (=a container for litter): · a picnic area with large wooden tables and litter bins ► refuse formal all the things that are regularly thrown away from the houses, shops etc in an area: · Heaps of decaying refuse littered every street. refuse collection: · Refuse collection has been seriously affected by the strike.refuse disposal (=destroying or burying refuse): · We are gradually developing safer and more effective methods of refuse disposal.household/domestic refuse (=refuse from houses): · facilities for recycling household refuse ► waste useless materials which are left over, especially after an industrial process, and which must be thrown away: · Too much waste has been dumped into the North Sea.industrial/chemical/nuclear waste: · Industrial waste had leaked into the water supply.radioactive/toxic/hazardous waste: · The government has announced a ban on all imports of toxic waste from abroad.waste disposal (=destroying or burying waste): · The costs of waste disposal are rising all the time. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► take out the trash  Will someone take out the trash (=take it outside the house)? ► in the trash  Just put it in the trash. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► white · We sought to distance ourselves from that, being white trash ourselves. NOUN► bin · Near their back porch, they said, rats scamper about, and maggots slither near trash bins.· The second blast went off near a trash bin in the parking lot.· Law enforcement agents and reporters were standing within feet of the trash bin where the second blast occurred.· Instead of routinely tossing frequent-flier program newsletters into the trash bin, peruse them for upcoming bargains.· They checked culverts, trash bins and washes. ► can · Putting the girls in the trash cans was the most important challenge of his life.· I could scour the trash cans!· It apparently started in a trash can and spread to the attic area of an 80-room wing of the motel.· He carried the bag outside and dumped it in one of the trash cans at the rear of the cottage.· Nathanson was also concerned that the trash cans on the platform were not emptied as often as needed.· Cantor knew the depth of the trash can containing discarded hypotheses and discredited experiments in the cancer field.· We recently replaced some large plastic barrels used as trash cans with more attractive station furnishings.· Accompanying the maps are two benches, two pay phones, a pair of trash cans and 10 parking spaces. VERB► pick · Emilio just started picking trash up in the streets.· But they also know they are lucky to be in Lansing, picking up the trash.· I loved to pick through trash piles and collect empty bottles, tin cans with Pretty labels, and discarded magazines.· They were already converting from three-person to one-person trucks, with mechanical arms that picked up trash barrels.· They pick through trash, poke through mail and tap into sophisticated computer databases in search of the elusive money trail.· Why, back in the States the white min pick up the trash. ► talk · Miller lets them talk trash on the court.· Emotions ran high throughout the game, with players fouling hard and talking trash.· She is talking a little trash in an effort to break the tension in the room. ► throw · Thrown away like a candy wrapper, thrown away like trash.· Children threw away their own trash, and, consequently, cleaned their own rooms. Phrases PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► talk trash Both teams talk trash on the basketball court. Emotions ran high throughout the game, with players fouling hard and talking trash. Miller lets them talk trash on the court. 1American English things that you throw away, such as empty bottles, used papers, food that has gone bad etc SYN rubbish British English:  Will someone take out the trash (=take it outside the house)? Just put it in the trash.2informal something that is of very poor quality:  How can you read that trash?3American English informal not polite someone from a low social class who you do not respect because you think they are lazy or immoral → white trash trash1 nountrash2 verb trashtrash2 verb [transitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE trash Simple Form Present I, you, we, they trash he, she, it trashes Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they trashed Present perfect I, you, we, they have trashed he, she, it has trashed Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had trashed Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will trash Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have trashed Continuous Form Present I am trashing he, she, it is trashing you, we, they are trashing Past I, he, she, it was trashing you, we, they were trashing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been trashing he, she, it has been trashing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been trashing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be trashing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been trashing Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Band members have been accused of trashing their hotel rooms. Dad says it's OK to have the party here, as long as we don't trash the place. Some of the people he trashed on the show are planning to sue. Someone had broken in and trashed her apartment. That kid of yours has trashed my VCR. The team celebrated their victory by trashing their hotel rooms. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And the Bomb Squaders would leave their sixth-grade seats and trash the offenders. And when they weren't trashing each other, they were trashing themselves. George Bush's decision to trash the Kyoto global warming treaty is appalling. There are instances of evicted occupants looting and trashing the house before they leave, even removing the doors and bathroom fittings. Thesaurus THESAURUS► destroy to damage something so badly that it no longer exists or cannot be used or repaired: · The earthquake almost completely destroyed the city.· The twin towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack. ► devastate to damage a large area very badly and destroy many things in it: · Allied bombings in 1943 devastated the city.· The country’s economy has been devastated by years of fighting. ► demolish to completely destroy a building, either deliberately or by accident: · The original 15th century house was demolished in Victorian times.· The plane crashed into a suburb of Paris, demolishing several buildings. ► flatten to destroy a building or town by knocking it down, bombing it etc, so that nothing is left standing: · The town centre was flattened by a 500 lb bomb. ► wreck to deliberately damage something very badly, especially a room or building: · The toilets had been wrecked by vandals.· They just wrecked the place. ► trash informal to deliberately destroy a lot of the things in a room, house etc: · Apparently, he trashed his hotel room while on drugs. ► obliterate formal to destroy a place so completely that nothing remains: · The nuclear blast obliterated most of Hiroshima. ► reduce something to ruins/rubble/ashes to destroy a building or town completely: · The town was reduced to rubble in the First World War. ► ruin to spoil something completely, so that it cannot be used or enjoyed: · Fungus may ruin the crop.· The new houses will ruin the view. Longman Language Activatorto damage something deliberately► vandalize also vandalise British to deliberately damage buildings, vehicles, or public property: · All the public telephones in the area had been vandalized.· No-one is really sure why people vandalize their own neighbourhoods. ► smash up British to deliberately damage a room or building by breaking windows, furniture etc: smash something up: · They didn't only rob the house, they smashed it up too.smash up something: · About 400 rioters had seized control and were smashing up the jail.smash the place up: · Some of the men got drunk and smashed the place up. ► trash especially American, informal to cause a lot of damage to a thing or place, either deliberately or by using it carelessly: · That kid of yours has trashed my VCR.trash the place spoken (=cause a lot of damage to a room or building): · Dad says it's OK to have the party here, as long as we don't trash the place. ► sabotage to secretly damage machines or equipment so that they cannot be used, especially in order to harm an enemy: · The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos.· Security lighting was sabotaged before the theft took place. ► tamper with to deliberately and illegally damage or change a part of something in order to prevent it from working properly: · Someone had tampered with the lock on my door.· After the accident, police discovered that the car's brakes had been tampered with. ► deface to deliberately spoil the appearance of something by writing on it, spraying paint on it etc: · Several of the gravestones had been defaced and were impossible to read.deface something with something: · The Central Bank issued a statement warning against defacing bank notes with what it called "indecent expressions". ► desecrate to damage a church or other holy place: · The church had been desecrated by vandals.· Most of the Egyptian tombs were desecrated and robbed. to destroy an area or place► destroy to damage something so badly that it cannot be repaired: · The earthquake destroyed much of the city.· In Brazil the rainforests are gradually being destroyed.· The factory was almost completely destroyed by fire. ► devastate to cause so much damage over a large area that most of the buildings, trees, and crops there are destroyed: · A huge explosion devastated the downtown area last night.· The country has been devastated by floods.· Years of war have devastated this island nation. ► wreck to deliberately damage a building or room very badly: · He came home drunk again, threatening to wreck the apartment.· Bulldozers were brought in to wreck the tents and shacks that protesters had put up. ► be flattened if an area such as a town or forest is flattened all the buildings or trees there are destroyed by bombs, storms etc: · It will cost $400 million to rebuild the houses that were flattened in the fighting.be flattened by: · Thousands of miles of woodland were flattened by storms last month. ► obliterate to destroy a place so completely that nothing remains, and it is difficult to see or imagine what was once there: · Entire sections of the city were obliterated by the repeated bombing.· Frequent flooding eventually obliterated all traces of the community that used to live there. ► be ravaged by if a place or an area is ravaged by war, fire etc, it is very badly damaged and a lot of it is destroyed - used especially in newspapers and news reports: · The country has been ravaged by civil war for the last 10 years.· North Africa and the Middle East are regularly ravaged by plagues of locusts. ► reduce something to rubble/ashes etc to completely destroy a building: · Their new two-storey house had been reduced to ashes in the fire.· We won't stand by while developers reduce the historic remains of the city to rubble. ► trash informal to deliberately destroy a lot of the things in a room, house, etc: · Someone had broken in and trashed her apartment.· Band members have been accused of trashing their hotel rooms. Phrases PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► talk trash Both teams talk trash on the basketball court. Emotions ran high throughout the game, with players fouling hard and talking trash. Miller lets them talk trash on the court. 1informal to destroy something completely, either deliberately or by using it too much:  The place got trashed last time we had a party.► see thesaurus at destroy2especially American English to criticize someone or something very severely:  The researchers are angry that attempts have been made to trash their work.
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