| 词汇 | wastepaper-basket |
| 释义 | wastepaper basket noun[ C ] mainly UK(alsowaste paper basket)uk /ˈweɪst.peɪ.pə ˌbɑː.skɪt/ us /ˈweɪst.peɪ.pɚ ˌbæs.kət/(UK alsowastepaper bin, waste paper bin); (US usuallywastebasket) an open container that stands on the floor inside buildings and is used for putting rubbish in, especially paper: 废纸篓，废纸箱 Most of the letters they receive end up in the wastepaper basket.他们收到的大部分信最终被扔进了废纸篓。 She tossed the envelope into the wastepaper bin. See also waste bin Tetra Images/GettyImages It is particularly annoying when someone drops rubbish in the wastepaper basket you have just emptied. He sometimes takes home letters connected with his son's business and, when he has finished with them, chucks them in his wastepaper basket. A discarded match thrown into a waste paper basket was the most likely cause of a fire. Most of her literary efforts went straight into the wastepaper bin. The letter is so silly the best thing to do with it is file it in the waste paper bin. Containers for waste ashcan bag bin bin bag bin liner bottle bank dustbin dustbin bag garbage bag garbage can honey bucket litter box litter tray skip trash bag trash can trash can liner wastebasket wheelie bin Examples of wastepaper basketwastepaper basket People with such a mindset do not need to be persuaded too long before they jettison play-writing in the wastepaperbasket of classical literature. We did not intend to use pragmatics as a wastepaperbasket. If you try any other approach, your complaints end up in the wastepaperbasket. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English A tremendous number of technical journals reach the doctor and are thrown straight into the wastepaperbasket because he has no time to read them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Frequently it is lost, thrown away or put into the wastepaperbasket, and in many cases nothing more happens after that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, it will have to go into the wastepaperbasket, together with all the other undelivered speeches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I sometimes fear that we tend to look upon backward children in a school as something that should be put in the wastepaperbasket. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They hardly look at the document and toss it into their wastepaperbasket. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think this document will be thrown in the wastepaperbasket. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Among that lot of paper— most of which went straight into my wastepaperbasket—was a very illuminating document giving details of the nationalisation law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The difficulty is that too many people, on seeing it, do not have her alert eye and put it straight in the wastepaperbasket. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we let the subject drop, it will go back into the wastepaperbasket and will not reappear for some years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of them throw them in the wastepaperbasket. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All my brilliant speeches ended up not being made and became tiny bits of paper in a wastepaperbasket. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not because we have to open a dozen or more of these circulars and then throw them into the wastepaperbasket. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of wastepaper basket These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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