Dump

[dʌmp]

解释:

(noun.) a place where supplies can be stored; 'an ammunition dump'.

(noun.) (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs.

(noun.) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped.

(verb.) drop (stuff) in a heap or mass; 'The truck dumped the garbage in the street'.

(verb.) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly; 'The company dumped him after many years of service'; 'She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man'.

(verb.) throw away as refuse; 'No dumping in these woods!'.

(verb.) sell at artificially low prices.

编辑:耶鲁--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

(v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.

(v. t.) Absence of mind; revery.

(v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

(v. t.) An old kind of dance.

(v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump.

(v. t.) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.

(n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

(n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

(n.) That which is dumped.

(n.) A pile of ore or rock.

整理:莱昂内尔

解释:

n. a deep hole in a river-bed a pool.

n. dullness or gloominess of mind ill-humour low spirits—now only used in the pl.: (Shak.) a melancholy strain any tune.—adj. Dump′ish depressed in spirits.—adv. Dump′ishly.—n. Dump′ishness.

v.t. to throw down: to unload.—n. a thud: a place for the discharge of loads or for rubbish: (pl.) money (slang).

编辑:朱尔斯