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- 垃圾
垃圾
lā jī
Meaning
- trash
- (coll.) of poor quality
Definition
指废弃物、无用的东西，也比喻低劣或没有价值的人或事物。
Rubbish, garbage, trash; also used metaphorically to describe something of poor quality or worthless.
Usage
通常作为名词使用，可以指具体的垃圾，也可以用于抽象意义，表示质量差或毫无价值。口语中常用作形容词，表示糟糕的。
Usually used as a noun, referring to concrete waste or figuratively indicating poor quality or worthlessness. In colloquial speech, it is often used as an adjective meaning terrible or lousy.
Examples
- 1 请不要把垃圾扔在地上。 (Please don't throw garbage on the ground.)
- 2 这部电影太垃圾了，浪费了我两个小时。 (This movie is so rubbish; it wasted two hours of my life.)
- 3 他把旧家具都当成垃圾扔掉了。 (He threw away all the old furniture as trash.)
- 4 这种垃圾食品对身体不好。 (This kind of junk food is bad for your health.)
- 5 你写的代码简直就是垃圾。 (The code you wrote is simply garbage.)
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