dumping ground

英语

名词

dumping ground (复数 dumping grounds)

1. 垃圾场
2. (比喻义) 任何不需要的东西被送往的地方
   • 2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN，第 210 页:

     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年6月16日, “Network News: Boost for Stanton Gate revival”, 出自 RAIL, 第 933 期，第 14 页:

     Around 25 years ago, it was used as a dumping ground for Toton locomotives destined for scrapyards.

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3. (分类学) 一个推测为多系群的超种分类群，其中亲缘关系不明确的物种被置于其中。

   近义词：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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