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waste 普通用詞，指廢物的總稱，泛指拋棄不要的東西。可用單數(shù)和復(fù)數(shù)形式表示。 1）One of the big headaches of the cities is how to dispose of garbage, industrial waste and sewage. 城市最頭痛的問題之一是如何處理垃圾、工業(yè)廢物和污水。 2）They have developed a new method to reclaim wool fibers from textile wastes. 他們已經(jīng)研發(fā)了一種從紡織廢料收回羊毛纖維的新方法。 3）Up to 10 million tonnes of toxic wastes are produced every year in the UK. 英國每年會(huì)產(chǎn)生多達(dá)1,000萬噸的有毒廢棄物。 4）The unproper disposal of wastes has led to the destruction of water fowl, shellfish and fishing resources. 船舶廢物處理不當(dāng)已造成水禽類、貝殼類動(dòng)物及漁業(yè)資源的破壞。 litter 多指亂扔的“垃圾”，尤指散落于地，有礙觀瞻的廢物。 1）Don’t leave litter about in public places. 不要在公共場所到處亂扔垃圾。 2）The litter everywhere in some holiday resorts really makes tourists feel disgusted. 有些度假勝地到處都是垃圾，真的讓游客感到惡心。 3）We saw some dustmen clearing a beach and woodland of litter. 我們看到一些清潔工正在清理海灘和林地的垃圾。 ● litter 用作動(dòng)詞，表示“亂扔垃圾”。 1）Don't litter scraps of paper and fruit peels everywhere in the park. 不要在公園里隨地亂丟紙屑和果皮。 2）Selfish picnickers litter the beach with food wrappers. 自私的野餐者亂扔包裝紙使海灘雜亂不堪。 3）Some large cities are anything but beautiful; their streets are littered with trash. 有些大城市一點(diǎn)也不漂亮，街道上到處都是亂扔的垃圾。 garbage “垃圾”、“廢物”，美國英語中較為常用，通常指需清除的剩余物如食物、飯菜、 罐頭等生活垃圾。 1）He collected the garbage from the school kitchen and took it home for his pigs. 他從學(xué)校廚房收集剩余飯菜，帶回家喂豬。 2）If all the garbage in the city is not picked up and carried away for a whole week, it will pile up on streets. 如果城市里的垃圾一個(gè)星期不處理，就會(huì)堆滿街道。 3）Fume produced by garbage incineration contains some harmful materials such as smoke dust, acidic gas, dioxin, heavy metal and so on. 焚燒生活垃圾產(chǎn)生的煙霧中含有一些有害物質(zhì)，如煙霧灰塵、酸性氣體、二惡英、重金屬 等。 4）Piles of garbage and raw sewage would create epidemics, perhaps even recurrences of plague. 一堆堆垃圾和未經(jīng)處理的污物可能引起流行病，甚至?xí)侔l(fā)生瘟疫。 rubbish 普通用詞，英國英語中較為常用，指任何成堆的、破損的、用過的或無用的東西， 尤指棄掉的垃圾堆。 1）Litter baskets have been placed under the trees, but people still throw their rubbish everywhere. 樹下都已設(shè)置廢物筐，但是人們?nèi)缘教幦永?br> 2）Those who throw rubbish out of windows should be fined. 往窗外扔垃圾的人應(yīng)該被罰款。 3）They dug a big pit to bury all the garden rubbish yesterday afternoon. 昨天下午他們挖了一個(gè)大坑將花園里的垃圾統(tǒng)統(tǒng)埋了。 4）Families face being rationed to 80 bags of rubbish a year. 英國家庭面臨“每年只能扔80袋垃圾”的限令。 5）No rubbish has been collected since the dustmen went on strike last week . 自從清潔工人上周罷工以來，垃圾一直沒有被清理。 ● rubbish 可用于比喻“廢話”、“沒有用的東西”。 1）Don’t trust him. What he said is all rubbish. 別信他的，他說的全是鬼話。 2）All the advertisements featuring ladies being pummeled into shape by some sort of machine are rubbish. 所有大肆鼓吹女士們通過使某種健身器械而迅速獲得好身段的廣告都是一派胡言。 3）While some people call them silly rubbish, others regard them as a valuable collectables. 有人把這些視其為垃圾，而也有人把它們視其為珍藏。 trash 主要用美國英語，相當(dāng)于garbage, 也可泛指各種垃圾。 1）Don't throw about your trash on the ground. 別將你的垃圾亂丟在地上。 2）She said that she found the baby in a pile of trash in the street corner. 她說她是在街角的一堆垃圾中發(fā)現(xiàn)這個(gè)棄嬰兒的 3）In this city, the punishment for those who litter is picking up trash in the streets for two hours. 在這個(gè)城市，對那些亂扔垃圾的人的懲罰是在街上撿垃圾兩個(gè)小時(shí)。 4）Some children pick up the trash left on the beach by the crowd of a summer holiday. 有些孩子到海灘上去撿度暑假的人扔下的破爛。 junk 可指“垃圾”，也可指損壞的、陳舊的、無價(jià)值的廢棄的物品（不一定指垃圾）Junk 可用于修飾名詞，如junk food (垃圾食品) 、junk email （垃圾郵件）。 1）There was a lot of junk stuck to the bottom of the trash barrel. 許多垃圾粘在垃圾桶的底部。 2）He threw away all the junk in the boot of the car. 他把汽車行李箱中所有廢棄的舊物都扔了出去。 3）I’m trying to clear it of all the junk I have collected over the years. 我正在清理我多年來積聚下來沒有用的東西。 4）The used piano he bought yesterday is a piece of junk; it doesn’t work. 他昨天買的二手鋼琴是件廢物垃圾，它根本彈不了。 5）We should have more fresh and green food and less junk food. 我們應(yīng)該吃更多的新鮮的綠色食品，少吃垃圾食品。 6）You can increase or decrease the junk e?mail protection level based on how much junk e?mail you receive. 根據(jù)接收的垃圾電子郵件的多少，可以提高或降低垃圾電子郵件的保護(hù)級(jí)別。 |
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