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['skræphiːp]сущ.; разг.; = scrap heap1)All cars end up on the scrapheap anyway. — Всё равно все автомобили в итоге оказываются на свалке металлолома.
2) разг. оценочная характеристика места для чего-л. или кого-л. бесполезного, никому не нужного2,000 workers are heading for the scrapheap. — 2000 человек будут уволены.
Apartheid is now justly piled on the scrap heap of history. — Система апартеида теперь отправлена на свалку истории, как она того и заслуживает.
He and his wife toiled almost round the clock for seven years to make a success of their business - only to land on the scrapheap. — Он и его жена семь лет вкалывали почти круглые сутки, чтобы поставить свой бизнес на ноги, а в итоге оказались у разбитого корыта.
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