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wastepaper basket

废纸篓,废纸箱,纸篓,杂物篮

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : mainly British another word for wastebasket

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Examples

  • Love means never having to say you're sorry... even if it leads to a gift basket.

  • He was this wonderful, elegant man who thought the world was going to hell in a hand basket.

  • He was duped into silly offensive fouls when smaller men moved in behind him as he powered toward the basket.

  • But his greatest gifts remain in the classic pivot—close in with his back to the basket.

  • If not for the writing and singing of songs, she might very well be a basket case.

  • Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"

  • About her neck was hung a covered basket and a door-key; and Davy at once concluded that she was Sindbad's house-keeper.

  • Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.

  • When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.

  • Below the round thing hung a square basket, with many ropes, and other things, fast to it.