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A heavy load you no longer want, let go of all at once and left somewhere — you tip it out and walk away. From that single move come: getting rid of things, the place the stuff lands, and the careless, feel of just letting something drop.

可以想成一個畫面：一車你不想要的東西，一口氣倒出來、丟在某處，然後人就走了。所有意思都從這個「整批甩掉、留在那裡」的…更多收起可以想成一個畫面：一車你不想要的東西，一口氣倒出來、丟在某處，然後人就走了。所有意思都從這個「整批甩掉、留在那裡」的動作長出來——丟棄東西、東西落腳的地方、以及那種隨手一扔、不講究的味道。

原始詞典資料31 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。

Dumpname詞源 1

  • 1

    A city in Toledo District, Belize.

Dumpname詞源 2

  • 1

    derogatoryslangDonald Trump.

dumpnoun詞源 1/dʌmp/

  • 1

    A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.

    • a toxic waste dump
  • 2

    A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

  • 3

    That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

  • 4

    That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

  • 5

    computingengineeringmathematicsAn act of dumping, or its result.

    • The new XML dump is coming soon.
  • 6

    computingengineeringmathematicsA formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.

  • 7

    A storage place for supplies, especially military.

    • an ammo dump
    • a munitions dump
  • 8

    slangAn unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.

    • This place looks like a dump.
    • Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
另外 8 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangAn act of defecation; a defecating.

    • I have to take a dump.
  • 10

    A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.

    • […] doleful dumps the mind oppress […]
    • […] I was musing in the midst of my dumps […]
  • 11

    Absence of mind; reverie.

    • They see not what passes before their eyes; hear not the audible discourse of the company; and when by any strong application to them they are roused a little, they are like men brought to themselves from some remote region […]. The shame that such dumps cause to well-bred people, when it carries them away from the company, where they should bear a part of the conversation, is a sufficient argument that it is a fault in the conduct of our understanding, not to have that power over it as to make use of it to those purposes, and on those occasions, wherein we have need of its assistance.
  • 12

    businessminingA pile of ore or rock.

  • 13

    obsoleteA melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

    • Tune a deploring dump […]
    • O, play me some merry dump to comfort me.
  • 14

    obsoleteAn old kind of dance.

  • 15

    historicalA small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).

    • Basically, to overcome an acute shortage of money in 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought silver dollars from Spain and then punched the centres out, thereby producing two coins - the ‘holey dollar’ (worth five shillings) and the ‘dump’ (worth one shilling and threepence). Talk about creating money out of nothing—the original silver dollar only cost five shillings! The holey dollar and the dump have been adopted as the symbol for the Macquarie Bank in Australia.
  • 16

    businessmarketingA temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

    • The back of this display is constructed of a double row of cans which are interlocking. The double row is significant because it provides a source of stock to replenish the dump which will be located in the base of the stand.
    • Mass displays to move goods in bulk are dotted here and there throughout the store, particularly at the ends of the gondolas, and considerable use is made of dump displays.

dumpverb詞源 1/dʌmp/

  • 1

    To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

  • 2

    To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.

    • The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
  • 3

    To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.

  • 4

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.

    • to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge
  • 5

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.

  • 6

    informalTo end a romantic relationship with.

    • Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.
  • 7

    obsoleteTo knock heavily; to stump.

  • 8

    To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it

    • We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

  • 10

    Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.

    • Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]

dumpnoun詞源 2/dʌmp/

  • 1

    archaicA thick, ill-shapen piece.

  • 2

    archaicA lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

    • The capons were leaden representations of cocks and hens pitched at by leaden dumps.

dumpnoun詞源 3/dʌmp/

  • 1

    A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。