scrapheap

1. Miners have been thrown on the scrapheap with no prospects.
   大批矿工被解雇，工作没着落。
2. Whenever his inventions don't work quite perfectly, Wendel simply throws them on the scrapheap and starts again.
   每当他发明出来的东西不好好工作的时候，温戴尔就把他们扔进垃圾堆然后重新开始发明。

noun

1. pile of discarded metal

2. an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter

   Synonym:    garbage heapjunk heaprubbish heaptrash heapjunk piletrash pilerefuse heap