Do you mean to tell me you gave 1500 for that pile of scrap metal!
难道说你花了1500英镑买了那堆破铜烂铁!
scraps or material removed when something is trimmed.
剪削,废料从被修剪的东西上掉下来的碎屑
Mrs Green gave the notes and scraps of paper he had used to jog his memory.
他把用来唤起自己的回忆的笔记和纸片从口袋里都掏了出来。