"这里没有垃圾桶。"
Translation:There is no trash can here.
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I always thought it had different characters, e.g. 勒色. Any idea why there's a different pronunciation for the same characters only in Taiwan?
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According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_Mandarin#Differences_from_Mainland_Mandarin
"lèsè" came from Wu, and was the standard pronunciation in mainland Mandarin until 1949, when the ROC government fled to Taiwan.
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English has many synonyms for "rubbish" and for "bin" and for "rubbish bin": "trash can", dustbin", etc. All should be accepted as correct.
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I said "There are no trash cans here", other lessons sometimes take the plural form so I'm not sure why this one didn't
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The English sentence hurts my head. I'd really prefer getting "There are no trash cans (or rubbish bins or whatever) here" from the word bank, or even "There aren't any trash cans here." Dunno why though.
I think “there is no bin here” is a reaction to someone saying “put it in the bin”. I agree that it's an odd way of putting it if someone is just wandering into a room and looking around (since then they would have no commitment to there being a single particular bin).
If you're British you call it a rubbish bin: the container that you put garbage in.
Add “waste bin” to the sad list of idiomatic names for the thing that should be but aren't accepted.
Yes, it's wrong. You could say "there are no rubbish bins here". You could also say "here there are no rubbish bins" but it's less usual.
When we start a sentence with "here" (without a subsequent "there" as in my second example), we expect to be presented with the item mentioned, not its lack.
there are no trashcans here. rejected. these last level 6 lessons have really gone to shit. pick up ur game duolingo
17/12/2020 The answer was excepted but the translation has grammatical error.
"Wastebasket" or "wastepaper basket" is a more limited term. Collins translates it as "废纸篓" ("廢紙簍").
We don't say "trash basket", "garbage basket", or "rubbish basket".
Oh? Don't we?
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_Pail_Kids
- https://cn.magazinera.com/98862-21660-garbage-pail-kids-race-to-the-white-house-sells-out-85
I would say it's not common but it's not wrong, and I might use it to describe a general-purpose pail being used at the moment as a garbage container.
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How about you introduce the concept of "can" after you've been using bucket to begin with? New word, and one way to teach it is to say: WRONG. ????
That's the way Duolingo works. We should be happy when we get something wrong, because it means we're learning something new (assuming Duo hasn't made a mistake).
You can try reporting "bucket", but "trash can" and "garbage can" are a lot more common than "trash bucket" or "garbage bucket".
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You're right, I usually don't blow my top but I was feeling particularly good about this lesson, and then they rained on my parade. I did think they'd use "can" (I was thinking about the English who use "dustbin"). Usually I do say, "Well, thank you for that", and write a note to myself that this is how they like it and the disagreement ends there - no biggy.
The thing I find saddest about the use of “trash can” here is not merely that it's a phrase known to only a minority of English speakers, but that it's non-decomposable fixed phrase: what's intended is likely a place for putting all kinds of waste/garbage/refuse/rubbish and not merely trash, and it is likely a bucket or a bin, but not a can. So almost any of the zillion* available alternatives would have been preferable. Except perhaps dustbin.
*Note: zillion not actually a number. Combinatorial calculation not actually performed. Count only under the supervision of a mathematician.