TOEICには出ないと思いますが英語でもくだらないことをゴミ(garbage)って言うんですね。
garbage
【noun [uncountable]】
1.くず、生ごみ、あら、がらくた、残飯、廃物
especially American English
waste material, such as paper, empty containers, and food thrown away [= rubbish British English]
:Can you take out the garbage when you go?(L)
:garbage collection(O)
:Don't forget to take out the garbage.(O)
:There will be no regular garbage collection Monday.(C)
:Take the garbage can/bags out to the curb to be picked up.(C)
●Japan Times:Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013
Xenophobia finds fertile soil in web anonymity
Net uyoku also tend to be extremely critical of liberal "mass-comi" (mass communications), calling them "masu-gomi" (mass garbage), he said.
●Japan Times:Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013
From Taiji to Okinawa, readers dissect some issues of 2012
Okinawa has become Japan's garbage pail — anything the national government doesn't want on the mainland just ends up here.
(omit)
They wanted to send a bunch of nuclear garbage here (as well as other areas) but were successfully blocked by the residents who petitioned their local representatives.
2.ゴミ箱
a place or container where waste food, paper, etc. can be placed
:Throw it in the garbage.(O)
:She threw the cheese in the garbage.(C)
●Japan Times:Friday, April 14, 2006
Man gets back 5 million yen wife trashed
Saitama Prefectural Police on Thursday returned 5 million yen in cash to a 35-year-old man whose wife accidentally tossed it in the garbage.
3.くだらない言葉、考え
stupid words, ideas etc [= rubbish British English]
:You're talking garbage.(L)
:'You mean you believe all that garbage?' he said..(O)
●New York Times:Jul 4, 2012
Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side
The Internet, he said, is “at least 80 percent garbage — lies, distortion, nonsense.”
garbage
【noun [uncountable]】
1.くず、生ごみ、あら、がらくた、残飯、廃物
especially American English
waste material, such as paper, empty containers, and food thrown away [= rubbish British English]
:Can you take out the garbage when you go?(L)
:garbage collection(O)
:Don't forget to take out the garbage.(O)
:There will be no regular garbage collection Monday.(C)
:Take the garbage can/bags out to the curb to be picked up.(C)
●Japan Times:Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013
Xenophobia finds fertile soil in web anonymity
Net uyoku also tend to be extremely critical of liberal "mass-comi" (mass communications), calling them "masu-gomi" (mass garbage), he said.
●Japan Times:Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013
From Taiji to Okinawa, readers dissect some issues of 2012
Okinawa has become Japan's garbage pail — anything the national government doesn't want on the mainland just ends up here.
(omit)
They wanted to send a bunch of nuclear garbage here (as well as other areas) but were successfully blocked by the residents who petitioned their local representatives.
2.ゴミ箱
a place or container where waste food, paper, etc. can be placed
:Throw it in the garbage.(O)
:She threw the cheese in the garbage.(C)
●Japan Times:Friday, April 14, 2006
Man gets back 5 million yen wife trashed
Saitama Prefectural Police on Thursday returned 5 million yen in cash to a 35-year-old man whose wife accidentally tossed it in the garbage.
3.くだらない言葉、考え
stupid words, ideas etc [= rubbish British English]
:You're talking garbage.(L)
:'You mean you believe all that garbage?' he said..(O)
●New York Times:Jul 4, 2012
Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side
The Internet, he said, is “at least 80 percent garbage — lies, distortion, nonsense.”