- N-UNCOUNT 垃圾;废弃物
Rubbish consists of unwanted things or waste material such as used paper, empty tins and bottles, and waste food.
- ...unwanted household rubbish...
无用的家庭垃圾 - They had piled most of their rubbish into yellow skips.
他们把大多数的垃圾堆到了黄色的废料桶里。
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用garbage, trash
- N-UNCOUNT 劣质物品;垃圾;废物
If you think that something is of very poor quality, you can say that it is rubbish .
- He described her book as absolute rubbish.
他说她的书一文不值。
- N-UNCOUNT 废话;胡说八道
If you think that an idea or a statement is foolish or wrong, you can say that it is rubbish .
- He's talking rubbish...
他胡说八道。 - These reports are total and utter rubbish.
这些报告废话连篇。
- ADJ 极不擅长的;非常差劲的
If you think that someone is not very good at something, you can say that they are rubbish at it.
- He was rubbish at his job...
他的工作做得差劲极了。 - I tried playing golf, but I was rubbish.
我试过打高尔夫球,但是我的球技太烂了。
- VERB 贬低;诋毁;将…说得一文不值
If you rubbish a person, their ideas or their work, you say they are of little value.
- Five whole pages of script were devoted to rubbishing her political opponents...
整整5页讲稿都是对她的政敌的诋毁。 - Officials have simply rubbished all positive ideas.
官员们对所有的正面意见一律否决。
in AM, use 美国英语用 trash
In British English, rubbish is the word most commonly used to refer to waste material that is thrown away. In American English, the words garbage and trash are more usual. ...the smell of rotting garbage... She threw the bottle into the trash. Garbage and trash are sometimes used in British English, but only informally and metaphorically. I don't have to listen to this garbage... The book was trash.
在英国英语中,rubbish最常用来表示丢弃的废物,但是在美国英语中garbage和trash更为常用,如:the smell of rotting garbage (腐烂垃圾的臭味),She threw the bottle into the trash (她把瓶子扔进了垃圾堆)。garbage和trash有时也在英国英语中使用,但仅限于非正式语体和比喻用法:I don't have to listen to this garbage (我不需要听这些废话),The book was trash (这本书简直是垃圾)。