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单词 dumping ground
释义
dumping ground
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/ˈdʌm.pɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd/us
/ˈdʌm.pɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd/
aplacewhere something that is notwantedisleft:
垃圾场，垃圾堆
Mostpeopledo notwantthiscountrytobecomeadumpinggroundfortoxicwaste.大多数人都不想让这个国家变成一个倾倒有毒废物的垃圾场。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Removing and getting rid of things
  • abandonment
  • banish
  • be scattered to the four windsidiom
  • bin
  • castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
  • dumping
  • eradication
  • erase
  • erasure
  • evacuate
  • evacuation
  • exorcism
  • fling
  • scrape
  • shedding
  • shoo
  • shrug
  • shrugsomethingoff
  • shuck
  • sling
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(Definition ofdumping groundfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

dumping ground| Business English

dumping ground
noun[C,usually singular]
uk
us
ENVIRONMENT
aplacewherewasteisthrownaway, usually in a way that isillegalor notsuitable:
Theriverbecameadumpinggroundforsewage.
We can'ttreatouroceans like adumpingground.
aplaceor anopportunityfor someone to getridof things that are notwanted:
We don'twantCalifornia tobecomeadumpinggroundforcheapimports.
(Definition ofdumping groundfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdumping ground

dumping ground
First and perhaps foremost, the whole notion of sustainability is advanced to the degree a potentialdumpinggroundis declared off-limits.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Let us first and foremost prevent this country from being any longer made adumpinggroundfor sweated products from all over the world.
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Historically the marine environment has been used as the ultimatedumpinggroundfor much of our industrial waste.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Wales should not be regarded as adumpinggroundfor other people's waste.
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London hitherto has been thedumpinggroundof all the dirty milk in the country.
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America has been adumpinggroundfor drugs for a number of years and comparatively its problem is a lot worse than ours.
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Waste land has become adumpingground.
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According to the local lore, before the pit was turned into adumpingground, it was first lined with clay.
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The gas works was given a special permission to continue to take its waste to thedumpingground, provided that it first neutralized the sulphuric acid waste with calcium oxide.
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It further gives distance to the next closestdumpinggroundcheck post.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Empty houses are used as rubbish tips, or as a convenientdumpingground.
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We must not become thedumpinggroundfor the world's freeloaders and bogus asylum seekers.
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I think we must be very careful indeed to refuse to become adumpinggroundfor other people.
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The national list becomes adumpinggroundfor those who are owed a favour and it ensures discipline.
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He said that a high proportion of inmates have suffered mental disorder and that prison should not be adumpinggroundfor the mentally ill.
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