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junk

/juhngk/US // dʒʌŋk //UK // (dʒʌŋk) //

垃圾,垃圾桶,废料,杂物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any old or discarded material, as metal, paper, or rags.
    • : anything that is regarded as worthless, meaningless, or contemptible; trash.
    • : old cable or cordage used when untwisted for making gaskets, swabs, oakum, etc.
    • : Nautical Slang. salt junk.
    • : Baseball Slang. relatively slow, unorthodox pitches that are deceptive to the batter in movement or pace, as knuckleballs or forkballs.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cast aside as junk; discard as no longer of use; scrap.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : cheap, worthless, unwanted, or trashy.

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Examples

  • The result has been a tide of disposable, nonrecyclable plastic junk.

  • They’ll junk their plan against a certain adversary and throw something completely different at them if whatever they did the first time around didn’t work.

  • Space junk isn’t going away anytime soon—and neither are the problems it causes.

  • Given how bad the space junk problem is getting, any new solutions are more than welcome at this point.

  • Mail ballots are now postage-paid, so you won’t need to dig around your junk drawer for stamps.

  • I am not the most financially literate person (I would be hard-pressed to articulate the term “junk bond”).

  • What you see is a massive, well-intentioned, legal junk pile.

  • For those in the resource world, every ton of junk that goes into a landfill represents wasted energy.

  • (Or as Gehry framed it in the Sketches documentary: “mak[ing] beauty with junk”).

  • I am just so convinced that junk food and high sugar food are undermining the health of people…It caused a lot of strain.

  • But as no junk-man came, and as no one could be found to care for its now sadly battered hulk, its good riddance became a problem.

  • We obliged them to proceed, passed close by the junk, and then landed, and continued our excursion on foot.

  • After he had married her, he'd sell out this pile of junk and let somebody else haggle with the Injuns and cowpunchers.

  • Your Caroline, so enticing five hours before in this very chamber where she frisked about like an eel, is now a junk of lead.

  • Then bit by bit, he unloaded his mind, which appeared full of little things, like a junk shop.