rubbish oor Afrikaans

rubbish

/ˈrʌbɪʃ/ adjektief, tussenwerpsel, werkwoord, naamwoord

(UK, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.

Vertalings in die woordeboek Engels - Afrikaans

afval

naamwoord

absurditeit

rommel

Before renovating a dilapidated house, you may first need to clear out the rubbish.
Voordat jy ’n bouvallige huis opknap, sal jy dalk eers die rommel moet verwyder.

bog

Something being said without sense, utterly wrong, of no use at all.

voorbeelde

Yet all the while part of the city lay buried under mounds of apparent rubbish.”
Tog het ’n deel van die stad al die tyd begrawe gelê onder heuwels van wat oënskynlik rommel was.”

Then he went to the rubbish bin and hid the two empty bottles under the used paper handtowels.
Dan loop hy na die asblik toe en versteek die twee leë bottels onder die gebruikte papierhanddoeke.

Immediately I threw the muti into a rubbish bin and afterward joined Elias in regularly attending the meetings of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Ek het die moetie dadelik in ’n vullisdrom gegooi en daarna gereeld saam met Elias die vergaderinge van Jehovah se Getuies bygewoon.

Furthermore, Layard asks in his book Nineveh and Babylon: “Who would have believed it probable or possible, before these discoveries were made, that beneath the heap of earth and rubbish which marked the site of Nineveh, there would be found the history of the wars between Hezekiah and Sennacherib, written at the very time when they took place by Sennacherib himself, and confirming even in minute details the Biblical record?”
Verder vra Austen Layard in sy boek Nineveh and Babylon: “Wie sou, voor hierdie ontdekkings gemaak is, geglo het dat dit waarskynlik of moontlik was dat die geskiedenis van die oorloë tussen Hiskia en Sanherib onder die hoop grond en rommel wat die ligging van Nineve aangedui het, gevind sou word, wat op presies die tyd toe hulle plaasgevind het deur Sanherib self geskryf is en die Bybelse verslag selfs in die fynste besonderhede bevestig?”

In fact, the third-century writer Tertullian, in his work De spectaculis, defined what went on in the arena as ‘rubbish’ and emphasized that the arena was ‘completely foreign’ to Christians.”
Trouens, die derde-eeuse skrywer Tertullianus het in sy werk De spectaculis die dinge wat in die arena gebeur het as ‘gemors’ beskryf en beklemtoon dat die arena ‘heeltemal vreemd’ vir Christene was.”

Everything else is rubbish.”
Die res is alles onsin.”

The place served as an incinerator where fires were kept burning to dispose of rubbish.
Dit was ’n plek waar vure aan die brand gehou is om van vullis ontslae te raak.

Observes Biblical Archaeology Review: “We should note that Babylonia and Egypt are both riverine cultures and that putting the baby in a waterproof basket might be a slightly more satisfactory way to dispose of an infant than throwing it on the rubbish heap, which was more usual. . . .
Biblical Archaeology Review sê: “Ons moet daarop let dat Babilonië sowel as Egipte rivierkulture is, en om ’n baba in ’n waterdigte mandjie te sit, was miskien ’n effens bevredigender manier om van ’n baba ontslae te raak as om hom op die ashoop te gooi, wat gebruikliker was. . . .

He called me ‘useless rubbish’ and treated me as if I had no intelligence.
Hy het my ’n ‘hopelose nikswerd’ genoem en my behandel asof ek geen intelligensie het nie.

" Well, " answered the cleaning woman, smiling so happily she couldn't go on speaking right away, " about how that rubbish from the next room should be thrown out, you mustn't worry about it.
" Wel, " antwoord die skoonmaak vrou, glimlag so gelukkig dat sy nie kon gaan praat nie dadelik nie, " het oor hoe om daardie rommel uit die kamer langsaan moet gegooi word is, moet jy nie daaroor bekommer nie.

Tourists and visitors have been complaining that they haven’t paid money to see a rubbish dump.”
Toeriste en besoekers kla dat hulle nie betaal het om ’n vullishoop te sien nie.”

Then the rubbish truck came by and stopped outside the house.
Toe kom die vullislorrie verby en hou buite die huis stil.

Make sure rubbish is thrown away and not left lying in the yard or street.
Maak seker afval word weggegooi en lê nie rond in die agterplaas of op straat nie.

Otherwise, Jesus explains, such persons will be thrown into Gehenna (a burning rubbish heap near Jerusalem), which symbolizes eternal destruction.
Anders, verduidelik Jesus, sal sulke persone in Gehenna (’n brandende vullishoop naby Jerusalem) gegooi word, wat ewige vernietiging afbeeld.

‘Your amateur trims it with that cheap rubbish that crimps it here at the end.’
“Jou amateur sal dit knip of sny met hierdie goedkoop gemors wat die ding kneus hier agter.”

“All the shoes in my truck are mixed up with the rubbish.
“Al die skoene in my lorrie is vol vullis.

Other rubbish may strangle the turtles.
Ander rommel kan skilpaaie verwurg.

Bagfuls were removed from our house and sent to the rubbish dump.
Ons het sakke vol uit die huis verwyder en na die ashoop gestuur.

Before renovating a dilapidated house, you may first need to clear out the rubbish.
Voordat jy ’n bouvallige huis opknap, sal jy dalk eers die rommel moet verwyder.

What was ‘in’ yesterday is ‘out’ today and frequently lands in the rubbish.
Wat gister ‘die mode’ was, is vandag ‘uit die mode’ en word dikwels op die ashoop gegooi.

WHAT comes to your mind when you think of a rubbish heap?
WAT kom by jou op as jy aan ’n ashoop dink?

They function both as an army defending against disease germs and as a janitorial service gobbling up rubbish.
Hulle dien as ’n leër wat weerstand teen siektekieme bied en verrig ook ’n opruimingsdiens deur rommel te verorber.

He's talking rubbish.
Hy praat deur sy nek

We cleaned out all the rubbish —the things in our minds and possessions relating to idolatry.
Ons het ontslae geraak van al die gemors—van ons gedagtes en besittings wat met afgodediens verband gehou het.

Showing a similar attitude, in 1894 a missionary reported to the Board of Foreign Missions of the United States that converting lower-caste people was “raking in rubbish into the Church.”
In 1894 het ’n sendeling ’n soortgelyke gesindheid aan die dag gelê toe hy aan die Raad van Buitelandse Sendingwerk van die Verenigde State gesê het dat die bekering van mense van laer kastes was soos om “vuilgoed in die Kerk in te vee”.