Archaeologists use heaps of trash to study people and culture and even have a special, nice-sounding name for garbage piles: middens.
考古学家利用垃圾去研究人类和文明,甚至给垃圾堆起了一个独特的、好听的称呼:肥堆。
冰与火之歌:列王的纷争(中英对照)
" A midden heap with a roof and a firepit" . Jon told Sam what he had seen and heard in Craster's Keep.
" 一座有屋顶、有火盆的垃圾场。" 琼恩把自己在卡斯特堡垒中的所见所闻告诉山姆。
《分钟地球》趣味科普(精选双语)
Digging through more recent history, a midden outside of George Washington's home revealed the belt buckles he wore, the china he used, and the meat he and his guests ate off of that china.
And we know from shell middens that the Maori people of New Zealand hunted moa and seals early on, but later had to switch to fish, shellfish, and small birds as the moa and seals became overhunted.
In one midden near Rome, archeologists uncovered 25 million containers for carrying olive oil, telling us that Romans used a lot of olive oil but almost none of it came from Rome — most was from Spain and Egypt.
A midden (also kitchen midden or shell heap; from early Scandinavian; Danish: mødding, Swedish regional: mödding) is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, vermin, shells, sherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human occupation.