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質問

I have a gripe with smokers who drop their butts on the ground. It's a common practice, but I find it simply inexcusable. Today, while traveling on errands near my home, I witnessed it yet again. I watched as one woman got out of her car in the parking lot of a store, took a long drag on her cig and then dropped it on the pavement and walked into the store, passing a handy butt receptacle standing right at the entrance. Not five minutes later, as I waited behind a truck at a red light, the driver lowered his window and threw the remains of his cigarette into the adjacent lane. Look along the curb of any city street and you will find cigarette butts by the hundreds. They are even scattered along the berm of my own small country road. Some jerks even empty entire ashtrays into the street!

butt receptacleは灰皿とは違うのでしょうか？あと、empty entire ashtrays into the streetの意味を教えてください。よろしくお願いします

回答No.1

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１。 butt receptacleは灰皿とは違うのでしょうか？

　灰皿というと、平面上の横幅の方が高さより大きい皿状の物ですが、あとにstandingという言葉があります。

　ですから、立っている人の手の位置に捨て口のある高さ１メートル前後の吸殻受けだと思います。普通スーパーの入り口などに「立って」います。

２。あと、empty entire ashtrays into the streetの意味を教えてください。

　自動車の複数のアッシュトレーに溜まっている煙草の灰や吸い殻を、空にして「掃除」するため中身全部を道路に捨てることです。

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