dis·card
verb/dɪˈskɑːd/
/dɪˈskɑːrd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they discard | /dɪˈskɑːd/ /dɪˈskɑːrd/ |
| he / she / it discards | /dɪˈskɑːdz/ /dɪˈskɑːrdz/ |
| past simple discarded | /dɪˈskɑːdɪd/ /dɪˈskɑːrdɪd/ |
| past participle discarded | /dɪˈskɑːdɪd/ /dɪˈskɑːrdɪd/ |
| -ing form discarding | /dɪˈskɑːdɪŋ/ /dɪˈskɑːrdɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] (formal) to get rid of something that you no longer want or need
丢弃；抛弃 - discard somebody/something The room was littered with discarded newspapers.
房间里到处是乱扔的报纸。 - He had discarded his jacket because of the heat.
因天气炎热他脱掉了夹克。 - (figurative) She could now discard all thought of promotion.
她现在可以打消晋升的念头了。 - discard somebody/something as something 10 per cent of the data was discarded as unreliable.
10% 的数据因不可靠而被废弃。
Extra Examples- Older managers have been discarded in favour of younger people.
年龄较大的管理人员已遭弃用，由年轻一些的接手。 - Rose quickly discarded the idea.
露丝很快抛弃了这种想法。 - These ideas have now been completely discarded.
这些观念现在已经完全被抛弃了。 - the parts of the animal that people may simply discard as inedible
动物身上被认为不能吃而直接丢弃的部份 - Most of the data was discarded as unreliable.
大部分数据因不可靠而被废弃。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- entirely
- largely
- …
- in favour/favor of
- discard somebody/something The room was littered with discarded newspapers.
- [transitive, intransitive] discard (something) (in card games) to get rid of a card that you do not want
垫（牌）；打出（无用的牌） Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- entirely
- largely
- …
- in favour/favor of
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally in the sense ‘reject (a playing card)’): from dis- (expressing removal) + the noun card.