Слово "scrap". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

  Sitting down again, he drew from his pocket a torn scrap of paper with writing on it and handed it to Poirot.  

When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.

Muriel, the goat, could read somewhat better than the dogs, and sometimes used to read to the others in the evenings from scraps of newspaper which she found on the rubbish heap.

He kept asking why didn’t we all go to bed, instead off sitting out here in the cold dark like hounds waiting at the kitchen for table scraps, and we just grinned at him.

When he came home empty-handed at night, he knew his father would curse him and thrash him first, and that when he was done the awful grandmother would do it all over again and improve on it; and that away in the night his starving mother would slip to him stealthily with any miserable scrap or crust she had been able to save for him by going hungry herself, notwithstanding she was often caught in that sort of treason and soundly beaten for it by her husband.

and you're going to die on a scrap heap of broken dreams

I cut them out of the papers. And I'm making a scrap-book, just like Uncle's. Oh, Peter, it's so wonderful!"

Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labours another Floating Fortress is built.

“I'm going to be carrying some scrap iron in this truck,” Jeff explained, “and I'm not sure the floorboards are strong enough to take the weight.

-Okay. -It’s a little crazy. Wow. Scrap metal! You shouldn't have. I saved it from the junkyard. I think they'll probably cost more to fix than they're worth,

Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labours another Floating Fortress is built.

A new rumour began to circulate that the present machinery was to be scrapped and new engines shipped across the water from Bronsea.

He became filled with zest. He almost forgot that he was the skipper of an elderly craft which should have been scrapped before he was born.

Thrown away, scrapped, rotting down; the old man with lupus and the forked stick who limps out at nightfall to turn the rubbish, hoping for something to put in his sack, something marketable, turns away with disgust.

Rather than scrapping the project, the President decided to cover everyone’s expenses.

With elaborate unconcern he took a cracked bowl from the pantry and filled it with scraps of pork, a few greens, and a big piece of corn bread.