means plastic, leaves, metal, tires, wood, etc, and garbage means food waste - I guess

是指塑膠、樹葉、金屬、輪胎、木材等，垃圾是指廚餘--我想

what we might now call compost. This linguistic distinction wasn't something I'd ever learned

也就是我們現在所說的堆肥。這種語言上的區別我並沒有學過

in school - I mean, to me, this is a trash can and this is a garbage can. But the Oxford

我的意思是，對我來說，這是一個垃圾桶，這是一個垃圾桶。但牛津大學

English Dictionary records "trash" as originally meaning broken or torn pieces of wood, twigs,

根據《英語詞典》的記載，"垃圾"的原意是破碎或撕裂的木片、樹枝、

splinters, cuttings from a hedge, straw, etc. while "garbage" originally meant giblets of

而"garbage"（垃圾"）最初指的是食物的內臟。

a fowl or entrails and waste parts of an animal. In fact, the earliest record of the word "garbage"

雞或動物的內臟和廢棄部分。事實上，"垃圾"（garbage&quot）一詞的最早記錄是在 1912 年；

in English is in a fifteenth-century cookbook recipe for giblets: "Take fayre garbagys of

十五世紀食譜中的內臟食譜："Take fayre garbagys of

chykonys, as þe hed, þe fete, þe lyuerys, an þe gysowrys; washe hem clene, an caste

"chykonys"，如 "heed"、"fete"、"lyuerys "和 "gysowrys"；"he hem clene "和 "caste"。

hem in a fayre potte." And so forth.

等等。

So grandma was right! These days, however, many of us in the US use the words 'garbage'

所以，奶奶是對的！然而，如今，我們中的許多美國人都在使用 "垃圾"（garbage&#39）這個詞；

and 'trash' interchangeably. And if you live in the British Isles... well, Rubbish.

和'垃圾'交替使用。如果你住在英倫三島......那就叫 "垃圾 "吧。