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N a dunghill or pile of refuse 粪堆; 垃圾堆 [archaic, DIALECT]
N a dustbin 垃圾箱 [DIALECT]
N an earth closet 土厕所 [Northern English] [DIALECT]
Excavations of old rubbish tips (or middens, as archaeologists call them) provide much of our knowledge of everyday life in the past.
我们对先人日常生活的了解,很多都是通过对垃圾堆——或者按照考古学家的术语叫“贝丘”——的发掘获得的。
The team looked at 17 archaeological sites around the islands to see what had been tossed over the centuries into community middens, or dumps.
这支队伍察看了岛上的17处考古遗址以便于发现几世纪来什么落到了群落的贝冢或是排泄物里。
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