scrap
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
— I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
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A fight, tussle, skirmish.
— We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.
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A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.; The smallest amount.
— I don't care a scrap.
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Leftover food.
— Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.
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The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
— pork scraps
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Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
— That car isn't good for anything but scrap.
- A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- A snare for catching birds.
动词 v.
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To discard; to get rid of.
— The party plans to scrap the military-drafted constitution, and bring the army's many business interests under the Ministry of Finance.
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to fight
— Oh yeah! Keep it spicy! You know I love a good tussle, Gonzales! Keep on scrappin', son! 'Course, it ain't gonna do you much good in the end.
- To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.
- To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
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To dispose of at a scrapyard.
— Northern made much of the scrapping of the first of the Pacers (142005), and to date 35 of its Class 142s have been scrapped, with a further 11 off-lease at Gascoigne Wood.
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To make into scrap.
— Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”). Cf. Swedish skräp (“garbage”).
词源 2
Perhaps from the obsolete colloquial meaning "sinister plot, scheme, villainy", or a dialectal variant of scrape.
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