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词汇 rubbish
释义 rubbish
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/ us /ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/
B1UK(USgarbage, trash)
waste material or things that are no longer wanted or needed: 垃圾;废弃物
I forgot to put the rubbish out this morning.我今天早晨忘了把垃圾拿出去让人收走。
Put the empty box in the rubbish bin.把空盒子放在垃圾桶里。
Take the old furniture to the rubbish dump.把这件旧家具扔到垃圾场去。
B2mainly UKinformal
something that you think is very low quality or not true: 粗制滥造的东西,劣质的东西;废话,瞎说
The film was rubbish.这部电影纯属垃圾。
His ideas are a load of (old) rubbish.他的想法真是一堆垃圾。
Residents have called for a clean-up campaign to keep their streets free from rubbish.居民们呼吁展开一次清洁卫生运动,让街头没有垃圾。
It's a shame that such a beautiful area has been defiled by a rubbish dump.这么美的地方竟然被一堆垃圾给糟蹋了,真是太可惜了。
He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
Look at all this rubbish on the floor.
Tie up the top of the bag so the rubbish doesn't fall out.把袋口扎好,这样垃圾不会掉出来。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Rubbish and waste
activated sludge
anti-litter
anti-littering
debris
dejunk
fumes
garbage
garbage disposal
gubbins
high-level waste
influent
litter
muck
sewage
sewerage
shavings
skip diving
slag
spoil
white elephant

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Nonsense
rubbish
verb[ T ]
UKinformaluk /ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/ us /ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/
to criticize something: 批评;狠批;贬低
Why does everyone rubbish my ideas?为什么大家都把我的想法批得一文不值?
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Disapproving & criticizing
anathematize
animadversion
aspersion
aw
backbite
barrel
bash
belabour
boo
disapprobation
knock
knocker
let someone have both barrelsidiom
low blow
mordacious
mordancy
pile
slam
there you goidiom
union-basher
rubbish
adjective
UKinformaluk /ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/ us /ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/
completely without skill at a particular activity: 一窍不通的;蹩脚的
I'm rubbish at arithmetic.我对算术一窍不通。
You're a rubbish dancer.你舞跳得糟透了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

bad at something
bad atI was overweight and bad at sport.
hopelessI’m completely hopeless in the kitchen.
uselessUKHe’s useless at maths.
rubbishUKShe’s a pretty rubbish singer, really.
incompetentThe rules have made it hard to remove incompetent teachers.
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Inexperienced (of people)
armchair
be new to this gameidiom
be wet behind the earsidiom
dewy-eyed
fledgling
innocency
innocent
innocently
maladroitly
new
uninformed
uninitiated
unrefined
unscholarly
unseasoned
untrained
untravelled
untutored
unversed
unworldly

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Inability and awkwardness
rubbish
exclamation
UKinformaluk /ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/ us /ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/
used for saying that you do not agree with what someone has said:
"Tomato plants are very difficult to grow." "Rubbish, they're easy to grow!"
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Linguistics: interjections
aiyo
attaboy
attagirl
auf Wiedersehen
aw shucks
doctor
eat your heart outidiom
figure
guess
lordy
marry
mazel tov
more
more power to your elbow!idiom
roll
yoicks
yoink
you know something?idiom
you should have seen/heard something/someoneidiom
you the man!idiom

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Arguing & disagreeing

rubbish | American Dictionary


rubbish
noun[ U ]
us/ˈrʌb·ɪʃ/
worthless and unwanted things or ideas; garbage:
All that was left of the property was a pile of rubbish nine feet high.
I can’t believe they broadcast such rubbish.

Examples of rubbish


rubbish
Given its relatively high artefact content, any redeposition was very probably of rubbish from within the fort itself.
And energy recovered from the heterogeneous fuel of rubbish struggles to be economically competitive.
Intermediary waste collection points were almost always covered, and the only operational rubbish tip was located offshore.
Put another way, primary deposits such as floors and uncontaminated rubbish middens are comparatively rare.
Serious writers don't engage in such rubbish, she decides.
They dislike sunlight and hide amongst dry straw and other rubbish in the fields.
Until the 1910s, the rubbish carts did not travel far.
One was cleared of dung, another of rubbish, another was accessed via a new staircase, another was hired for storing wine.
Crowded housing, the sewage system, and such dubious practices as spitting and throwing rubbish out of high-rise apartment buildings came under the spotlight.
Some visited second-hand shops or searched rubbish skips and acquired rugs, chairs, pictures, crockery and ornaments.
Technocrats promoted the destructor as the most effective means of neutralizing the public health danger created by decaying rubbish.
There was no system for removal of rubbish such as disposable nappies left by the pickers.
Experts argued that reuse and utilization of rubbish were ineffective and unhygienic methods of waste disposal.
Overture, fashionable rubbish with the last bit coining first.
Consequently, in the absence of sufficient amounts of rubbish, the destructor was shut down for brief periods; on resumption, combustion was imperfect until temperatures rose.
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Collocations withrubbish


rubbish

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absolute rubbish
I hear his former parliamentary private secretary telling me that that is absolute rubbish.
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complete rubbish
Against that criterion, the proposition in the amendment is complete rubbish.
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load of rubbish
Frankly, all the newspapers that are currently being produced are a load of rubbish, and that industry is going electronic anyway.
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