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wastebasket

/weyst-bas-kit, -bah-skit/US // ˈweɪstˌbæs kɪt, -ˌbɑ skɪt //UK // (ˈweɪstˌbɑːskɪt) //

垃圾箱,废料箱,废物箱,废品箱

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.

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Examples

  • It will end up shriveled up, dried up, dead; rolled up in dirty gauze and tossed into a wastebasket, quickly forgotten.

  • Beard nodded, and without another word, Kenney flung the work into the wastebasket.

  • What did you do—go through his wastebasket and find his pay stub?

  • Well, ultimately, the screenplay is the only part of a movie that you can fit into a wastebasket.

  • I even remember throwing the pieces into the round wooden wastebasket in our living room.

  • I finished cleaning out my desk and took a wastebasket full of papers to the back shop.

  • Bassett winnowed these carefully, brushing the chaff into his wastebasket and retaining a few kernels for later use.

  • Anything like that I always take and I tear up and put in the wastebasket.

  • Hall went through the wastebasket, the clothes hanging in the closet, every drawer in the bureau.

  • She tossed a slip into the wastebasket beside her and glanced at the next slip.