| 单词 | waste-paper basket |
| 释义 | waste-paper basket (once / 22428 pages) n WORD FAMILY waste-paper basket USAGE EXAMPLESGermany, he warns, cannot go on indefinitely being treated "as a waste-paper basket with a limitless capacity for the unwanted waste of the world." US News(Oct 06, 2015) ‘As for this’ - she scrunched it up and threw it in the waste-paper basket - ‘it’s beyond us, Ted.’ Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery(2007) He ought to have tossed it into the waste-paper basket. Edwards, Albert, Comrade Yetta(2012) n a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish Syn|Hyper circular file, waste basket, wastebasket, wastepaper basket container any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) |
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