dumping ground

英語[编辑]

dumping ground (複數 dumping grounds)

垃圾場
(比喻義) 任何不需要的東西被送往的地方
- 2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN，頁號 210:
  The Indian representative of a global trade union called IndustriALL warned that other clothes and accessories shipped overseas might also be radioactive because India has become a "dumping ground" for the West's hazardous waste.
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- 2021 6月 16, “Network News: Boost for Stanton Gate revival”, 出自 RAIL, 期 933，頁號 14:
  Around 25 years ago, it was used as a dumping ground for Toton locomotives destined for scrapyards.
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(分類學) 一個推測為多系群的超種分類群，其中親緣關係不明確的物種被置於其中。
近義詞： wastebasket taxon
- 2008 December, Mark W. Chase et al., “Taxonomic transfers in Oncidiinae to accord with Genera Orchidacearum, Vol. 5”, 出自 Lindleyana:
  Several genera, e.g. Miltonia Lindl., Odontoglossum Kunth and Oncidium Sw., have historically been viewed as taxa of convenience and thus became dumping grounds for species of unclear relationships.
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