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Rubbish deluge

 

夏日炎炎，本應是碧波暢泳的好時機。可是，海洋垃圾襲港，登時大煞風景。垃圾哪裡來？假如不想別人「執手尾」，又該如何是好？

 

Hong Kong will discuss with Guangdong how to deal with the massive but “unusual” deluge of rubbish washing up on the city’s southern shores in recent weeks.
                                                                                                                             [SCMP, 11 July 2016]

 

[SCMP, 11 July 2016]

 

deluge [ˈdeljuːdʒ]
(noun 名詞)

 

a deluge of (things) 蜂擁而至的（事物）

例子：a deluge of rain / water 傾盆大雨／大洪水

例子：The recent incident has brought a deluge of criticism

 

be deluged with 因…應接不暇
(verb 動詞)

 

例子：The head office was deluged with complaints.

 

rubbish (BrE) = trash / garbage (AmE) = refuse = waste
(noun 名詞)

 

在美國，不少人把trash當成動詞用，有「把別人批評得一文不值」的意思。英國則用 rubbish。

例子：The candidates were trashing / rubbishing each other.

 

massive 巨大的
(adjective 形容詞)

例子：The scale of the problem is massive.

 

Volunteers take to the beaches in clean-up drive while calling on government to do more to curb the worsening problem of marine rubbish.

 

call on/upon someone to do something 促請
(phrasal verb 片語動詞)

 

call on/upon someone 拜訪

例子：Sam called on his uncle yesterday.

 

 

curb 遏止
(verb 動詞) 

例子：Inflation needs to be curbed in some developed countries.

 

curb your emotion 控制情緒

例子：He curbed his temper.

 

   
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