核心畫面

Think of the question everybody has to answer once something is finished with: where does this go now? Waste disposal is the answer to that question, taken as a whole — picking the unwanted thing up, doing something to it, and finding it a final place. Hold that picture and you can see why one small kitchen machine ends up with the same name. It is the answer to the question for one bowl of food scraps: it takes them, cuts them up, and sends them somewhere else. English very often lets a machine borrow the name of the job it does.

可以想成每個人在東西用完之後都得回答的一個問題:這個現在要去哪裡?waste disposal 就是把這個問題的整套更多收起可以想成每個人在東西用完之後都得回答的一個問題:這個現在要去哪裡?waste disposal 就是把這個問題的整套答案包起來——把沒人要的東西收走、做點處理、再找個最後的地方放。抓住這張圖,就看得出為什麼廚房裡一台小機器也叫同一個名字。它正是這個問題在一碗廚餘上的答案:收下來、切碎、送走。英文很常讓機器直接借用它所做的那件事的名字。

One branch

把沒人要的東西安排掉

一個是這件事本身,一個是替你做這件事的機器。文法上很好分:機器前面有 a 或 the,過程沒有。

noun · B2

The work of getting rid of rubbish and other unwanted material, including collecting it, treating it and putting it somewhere it can stay safely.

廢棄物處理