garbage
n
1 [U] (esp US)
(a) waste material, esp domestic refuse 廢物; (尤指家庭的)垃圾
[attrib 作定語(yǔ)]
garbage collection/disposal 垃圾收集[處理]
a garbage truck 垃圾車(chē).
(b) place or receptacle for disposing of this 垃圾場(chǎng); 垃圾箱
Throw any left-over food in the garbage. 把剩下的食物倒進(jìn)垃圾箱里.
2 [U] (fig infml 比喻, 口) nonsense; rubbish 廢話(huà); 無(wú)聊的話(huà)
You do talk a load of garbage! 你的廢話(huà)太多了!
3 [U] (fig computing 比喻, 計(jì)) meaningless or irrelevant data 無(wú)意義的或無(wú)關(guān)聯(lián)的資料或數(shù)據(jù).
4 (idm 習(xí)語(yǔ)) garbage `in, garbage `out (infml 口) (in computing) if you input wrong data, the output will also be wrong (計(jì)算機(jī)運(yùn)算中)錯(cuò)進(jìn), 錯(cuò)出(若輸入錯(cuò)誤數(shù)據(jù), 則輸出亦為錯(cuò)誤數(shù)據(jù)).