a/the + refuse + noun
refuse 作形容词时只放在名词前面，用来说明该事物是被丢弃、废弃的，不能放在 be 动词后作表语。
The council emptied the refuse bin outside our house.
市政人员清空了我们家外面的废弃物垃圾桶。
被丢弃的,拒绝的；扔掉的；无用的
discarded or rejected
被丢弃的,拒绝的
Discarded, rejected.
The supermarket sends its refuse fruit to a local compost center.
这家超市把废弃水果送到当地的堆肥中心。
用法提示：此句中 refuse 为形容词，修饰 fruit，表示“废弃的、被丢弃的”。
Workers collected the refuse glass from the factory floor and melted it down.
工人们把工厂地面上的废弃玻璃收集起来熔化掉。
用法提示：此句中 refuse 为形容词，修饰 glass，表示“废弃的、被拒收的”。
The carpenter turned refuse wood into small stools for the children's playroom.
木匠把废弃木材做成儿童游戏室的小凳子。
用法提示：此句中 refuse 为形容词，修饰 wood，表示“废弃的、被丢弃的”。
refuse 作形容词时只放在名词前面，用来说明该事物是被丢弃、废弃的，不能放在 be 动词后作表语。
The council emptied the refuse bin outside our house.
市政人员清空了我们家外面的废弃物垃圾桶。
这类搭配中 refuse 直接修饰后面的名词，整体表示与废弃物处理有关的事物，中间不加任何词。
Refuse collection in this area takes place on Fridays.
这一区域的废弃物收集在每周五进行。
grammar · medium
易错句子His refuse to help surprised everyone.
正确表达His refusal to help surprised everyone.
主语位置需要名词，而 refuse 只能作形容词（废弃的）或动词原形，不能充当主语；表示“拒绝”这一行为的名词形式是 refusal。
grammar · medium
易错句子She felt refuse after the interview.
正确表达She felt rejected after the interview.
形容词 refuse 只表示“被丢弃的（废物）”，且通常放在名词前；要表达人“被拒绝、有被拒之感”须用分词形容词 rejected，不能直接搬中文“拒绝”对应的 refuse。
grammar · medium
易错句子The offer was refuse by the manager.
正确表达The offer was refused by the manager.
被动语态中 be 之后必须用过去分词 refused；refuse 是原形（此处还兼作形容词），不能充当被动结构的动词形式。
垃圾堆；废弃物堆
A stray cat was nosing through the refuse heap behind the shop.
一只流浪猫在商店后面的垃圾堆里翻找着。
废物堆
They burned the refuse pile at the back of the garden.
他们烧掉了花园后面的废物堆。
垃圾桶
Please drop your wrappers in the refuse bin by the door.
请把包装纸扔进门边的垃圾桶里。
垃圾收集；收垃圾
Refuse collection takes place every Tuesday morning.
收垃圾在每周二早上进行。
垃圾场；废弃物堆放场
The old factory site has become a refuse dump.
那片旧厂址已经成了一个垃圾场。
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