dustbin

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++dust·bin /ˈdʌstbɪn/ noun [countable]   DHC British English a large container outside your house, used for holding waste until it is taken away 〔室外的〕垃圾箱，垃圾桶 SYN American English garbage can →4  See picture of 见图 BIN

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dustbin• Dustbin derby: Schools throughout Langbaurgh are competing for Telethon's dustbin derby by collecting plastic bags for recycling.• Only this time, it was found rolling around in a dustbin.• Was lying beside dustbins and boxes of waste paper, just inside the locked gates to the yard.• Have you any notion what people put in dustbins?• It was a black plastic dustbin bag.• Next morning the din from the dustbin lids had hardly subsided when the grim realization drove into my brain.• Old Ape rooted in the dustbins outside Phyl's Phries.• He found the letter of introduction to Monsieur Messidor and tossed it into the dustbin.

dust·bin nounChineseSyllable  

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dustbin
dust‧bin /ˈdʌstbɪn/ noun [countable]

British English a large container outside your house, used for holding waste until it is taken away
   SYN  garbage can American English

dust·binBrE /ˈdʌstbɪn/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdʌstbɪn/ 🔊 (BrE) (NAmE ˈgarbage can, ˈtrash can) nouna large container with a lid, used for putting rubbish/garbage in, usually kept outside the house （常置于房外的）垃圾桶，垃圾箱

• Rubbish is the usual word in BrE for the things that you throw away because you no longer want or need them. Garbage and trash are both used in NAmE. Inside the home, garbage tends to mean waste food and other wet material, while trash is paper, cardboard and dry material. 在英式英语中，rubbish 为常用词，指垃圾、废物。garbage 和 trash 均用于美式英语。生活垃圾中，garbage 多指废弃的食物和其他湿物质，而 trash 则指废弃的纸、硬纸板和干物质。
• In BrE, you put your rubbish in a dustbin in the street to be collected by the dustmen. In NAmE, your garbage and trash goes in a garbage/trash can in the street and is collected by garbage men/collectors. 在英式英语中，垃圾为 rubbish，街上的垃圾桶为 dustbin，清除垃圾的工人叫 dustman。在美式英语中，垃圾为 garbage 和 trash，街上的垃圾桶为 garbage/trash can，清除垃圾的工人叫 garbage man/collector。
• Refuse is a formal word and is used in both BrE and NAmE. Refuse collector is the formal word for a dustman or garbage collector. * refuse 为正式用语，用于英式英语和美式英语均可。refuse collector 为 dustman 或 garbage collector 的正式说法。