中譯/中文意思: 垃圾場
Dialog at: 3: 06 and 4:58
A: Where you going?
B: The dump.
A: You got room for some magazines?
B: No! You need to recycle those!
Hello, everybody,
My name is Coach Shane, and welcome to Easy
English Expressions. You and me everyday. Come on. Let’s master English.
Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Daily
Easy English expression. Today, we have a nice noun to learn: “the dump”. “The
dump, D-U-M-P”. “The dump”. “The dump” is actually a place. In this dialog, I
am going to teach you a place. Now, the places where we put our garbage and
trash. Where does our garbage go? Well, first of all, it goes to the garbage
can and eventually it goes to the dump. And the dump is usually a place outside
the city, in the country. It might be a big hole in the ground. And they throw
off the garbage in the hole. Sometimes, it’s not underground. Sometimes, it’s
above ground. And then, eventually, they cover the dump with dirt. But this is
the dump, the dump is the place where you throw your garbage. So, this is a
very useful expression.
Let’s say you have a cell phone, an old cell phone. But
you dropped it on the ground and the screen cracked the glasses is broken. But
it still works. You don’t need to take it to the dump. It doesn’t belong in the
dump. But then you have your cell phone and it falls poop into the toilet. You
rescue your cell phone, it doesn’t work. You try everything. It’s cheap. It’s
not expensive. Well, it looks like the cell phone has to go to the dump. This
cell phone must to be thrown away. It is garbage. It’s other world for garbage,
the dump. This cell phone must go to the dump. You know, I understand that cell
phones have valuable things inside. Is there place to recycle the cell phone?
Actually, me, I have my old cell phone. I never threw it away. I am still
looking for the replace to recycle this. But anyway, it doesn’t belong in the
dump, the cell phone dump. Now, this word “dump” actually has lots of possible
meanings. But just take this word as the place for garbage. That’s the basic
meaning. Let’s go ahead and check out a dialog:
A: Where you going?
B: The dump.
A: You got room for some magazines?
B: No! You need to recycle those!
That’s right. If you actually go to the
dump, now, there’s a dump in the down where I live. And they have a place for
regular garbage but they do have a place for recycling: plastics and glass and
paper. And that’s the guy talking about. Magazine don’t go to the dump, they go
to the recycling center. So, the dump really is the forever trash place.
So,
once again, dump does have many other meanings. This place is a dump. It’s a
very dirty place. The restaurant is a dump, it’s a very dirty restaurant. His
apartment is a dump, it’s a very dirty apartment. That’s the idea. To dump
somebody, that means break up with somebody. She dumped him. She broke up him.
I dumped her. I broke up with her. And it’s even more meanings of the word “dump”.
And I’ll talk about those in the next few days.
But, once again today, look
around you. Is there something that needs go to the dump? And make sure you want
to understand: something goes to the dump, but something needs to be recycled.
And do you ever go to the dump? Yourself? Most people don’t. The city garbage
truck goes to the dump. But if you live in the country, you might actually go
to the dump, yourself. Check out the dialog two more times and together let’s
master English.
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