Junk mail 垃圾郵件
Do you get a lot of junk mail?
今日小常識
In 2010 the British postal service, Royal Mail, delivered 1.7bn items of junk mail to homes around the country. That's 26 items for each person in one year.
2010年英國郵局送達全國各地的垃圾郵件數(shù)量高達17億封，也就是說平均每人在一年內就接收到了26封垃圾郵件。
今日短語
Junk mail 垃圾郵件，指那些主動送上門的、沒有用的廣告信件。這個詞也適用于電子郵件中的垃圾郵件。
例句
Why does no one send me real letters anymore? All I ever receive is junk mail!
When I checked my email this morning there were 15 items of junk mail advertising all kinds of weird things.
請注意
另一個垃圾組合詞是 junk food 垃圾食品，指那些不健康的快餐，比如漢堡、熱狗等等。
I really need to stop eating so much junk food. I'm 2kg heavier than I was 2 months ago.
