trash heap of history

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the trash heap of history trash heaps of history

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A notional place where events, people or objects which have been forgotten or have become irrelevant from a historical perspective are placed or recorded.

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词源

In a similar form (“that great dust heap called ‘history’”) used by English essayist Augustine Birrell in 1887 (but in use before), popularized by Leon Trotsky in reference to the Mensheviks (1917).

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