喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the bin: whatever is in it has been judged worthless and put out of the way. Trash is that. English then uses the same judgement on other things — a bad film, and, , on people — and turns it into a verb: to trash something is to put it in that condition, either by wrecking it or by talking about it as worthless.

可以想成：垃圾桶裡的東西——已經被判定沒有價值，所以被丟到一邊。trash 最基本比較像這個。接著英文把同一種判定用…更多收起可以想成：垃圾桶裡的東西——已經被判定沒有價值，所以被丟到一邊。trash 最基本比較像這個。接著英文把同一種判定用到別的東西上：難看的電影、粗製的商品；再狠一點，也用到人身上。變成動詞之後，就是「把某樣東西弄成那個樣子」——不是砸爛它，就是把它說得一文不值。

From the picture

被判定沒價值的東西或人

從真的垃圾變成一種評價：這東西的價值等同於垃圾。用在人身上時，這個評價會非常傷人。

junk (poor quality) · noun · C2

Something that is of very poor quality, like a bad book, show, or cheap product.

爛東西

把東西弄成垃圾（動詞）

名詞變成動作：讓某樣東西落到垃圾的處境——實體上砸爛它，或言語上把它貶到底。

trash, destroy · verb · C2

To destroy or badly damage something completely, on purpose or by using it too hard.

砸爛／弄壞

Also in this word

garbage · noun · C2

Things you throw away, such as paper, bottles, or old food.

垃圾

原始詞典資料15 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。

trashnoun/tɹæʃ/

  • 1

    Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

    • A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
  • 2

    A container into which things are discarded.

  • 3

    Something worthless or of poor quality.

    • When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
  • 4

    A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.

  • 5

    agriculturebusinesslifestyleThe disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.

  • 6

    agriculturebusinesslifestyleLoose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.

  • 7

    derogatoryslangPeople of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)

  • 8

    slanglifestyleA fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.

    • Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan
    • I am Harry Potter trash.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    computingengineeringmathematicsTemporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

    • Drag the unwanted message to the trash.

trashverb/tɹæʃ/

  • 1

    To discard.

    • Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
  • 2

    To make into a mess.

    • The burglars trashed the house.
  • 3

    To beat soundly in a game.

  • 4

    To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.

    • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.
  • 5

    To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.

    • to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
    • the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves
  • 6

    To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

    • I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' me

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。