waste bin
waste bin — 名詞
1. a container, usually kept indoors, where you put things you want to throw away,
垃圾桶
室內放置廢棄物的容器
a container, usually kept indoors, where you put things you want to throw away, such as used paper or empty food containers
Tamar crumpled the receipt and dropped it into the kitchen waste bin.
Tamar 把收據揉成一團，丟進廚房垃圾桶。
collocation: drop (something) into the waste bin
The office cleaner emptied every waste bin before the morning meeting.
辦公室的清潔工在早上開會前，清空了每一個垃圾桶。
collocation: empty the waste bin
Hamza bought a small waste bin with a lid for his bathroom.
Hamza 買了一個附蓋子的小垃圾桶放在浴室。
When the waste bin started to smell, Lakshmi took it outside to clean it.
垃圾桶開始有異味時，Lakshmi 把它拿到外面去清洗。
The waste bin under the desk was overflowing with crumpled notes and old magazines.
書桌下的垃圾桶塞滿了揉皺的筆記和舊雜誌，幾乎要溢出來。
- trash can
American English equivalent
- garbage can
American English equivalent, especially for kitchen use
- dustbin
British English, slightly old-fashioned
- wastepaper basket
smaller, usually open and for paper only
用法筆記
More common in British English; American English uses 'trash can' or 'garbage can' for the same object. Not used for large outdoor containers, which are called 'dumpsters' (AmE) or 'skips' (BrE).