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Rubbishy means silly, cheap, or just not good — the kind of thing you would throw away if it were an object, or not take seriously if it were an idea. A film, a book, a gift, or an argument can all be rubbishy. It is informal British English and a bit , though lighter than a cold word like 'worthless.' Americans hardly say it; they are more likely to use trashy or lousy. British speakers can already use rubbish as a kind of adjective ('that's rubbish'), and rubbishy is the -y form, a little like 'full of rubbish.' It is everyday talk, not a school-report word.
爛的、差勁的、無聊的(英式口語)
組成rubbish + -y (having that quality). Rubbish here is the English noun for waste or nonsense. The -y is the old English adjective ending (as in messy).
同家族的字
- rubbishthe noun this adjective is built from — waste, or talk that is nonsense
原始詞典資料2 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。
rubbishyadj
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Strewn with litter.
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Of little or no value; worthless.
- We pointed out last April, for instance, that Mr. [Alfred Russel] Wallace pronounced the most wonderful panegyric on the eloquent spiritual teachings of “mediums” of whose utterly stilted and unmeaning verbiage we gave our readers some specimens, and we could not help doubting the calmness of a judgment which was evidently so intoxicated with the class of marvels with which it had been dealing, that it could seriously see beauty and power in tall talk of the rubbishiest, the most vulgar, and the most ungrammatical description.
- “Every little bit helps,” the queen whispers, recalling the mantra of the original settlers. A whole life lived in a hole in the ground. Rubbish. Sacrifice for future generations. Rubbish. The Orthocracy? Rubbish. The CorpComs? Rubbishier rubbish. She is going to ehange all of that. A little more time. A few more raids.
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。