scrapheap
n. 废物堆,废料堆
例句
Thousands of miners have been thrown on the scrapheap with no jobs and no prospects.
数千矿工被解雇,没有工作,也没有前途。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
Only a federal bail-out saved GM from the scrapheap.
唯一把通用汽车从烂摊子中拯救出来的是联邦的破产保护。
Discarded American workers have not rusted on the scrapheap, as so many do in Europe.
被裁掉的美国劳工并没有像很多欧洲的失业者那样就此荒废终老。