喜樂美語
  1. 1垃圾桶（美式說法，帶點舊）

    An ashcan is a bin for rubbish — what American English also calls a garbage can or a trash can. The word is mainly US, and it sounds a little old now; younger people are more likely to say trash can. Though actually the first ashcans were for ashes from coal and wood , which houses used to make every day. The name stuck, and then it came to mean any rubbish bin, not only a can for ash. People also stretch it as a verb in informal American English: to ashcan a plan is to throw it away. You may meet “the Ashcan School” in art class; that is a special name for some painters, built from this same “messy bin” feeling.

組成From ash + can: a can that was first meant for ashes.

同家族的字

  • ashthe powder left after a fire — the first thing these cans held
  • ashtrayanother small holder for ash
  • canthe metal container piece

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

ashcannoun

  • 1

    A container for collecting ashes, especially from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere.

  • 2

    A dustbin, trash can, or the like.

    • He chain-lit a fresh cigarette and flicked the old butt, still smouldering, into the steel ash-can beside his drawing table.
  • 3

    slangA kind of large firecracker.

ashcanverb

  • 1

    informalTo throw out like rubbish; to ditch or trash.

ashcanadj

  • 1

    Of or pertaining to the Ashcan School of American art.

  • 2

    Describing a comic book originally published solely to retain ownership of a trademark, not intended for general release; later used for promotional comic books intended for limited release to the public.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。