dumping ground

英語

名詞

dumping ground (複數 dumping grounds)

1. 垃圾場
2. (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，第 210 頁:

     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 頁:

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

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3. (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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