ADJECTIVE | VERB + HEAP | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤big, great, large一大堆▸➤little, small一小堆▸➤crumpled雜亂的一堆▸➤ash (NAmE, usuallyfigurative) , rubbish, scrap, slag, spoil, trash (NAmE) 灰堆;垃圾堆;廢料堆;礦渣堆;棄土堆◇the ash heap of history歷史的垃圾堆◇colliery spoil heaps煤礦棄土堆➤compost, manure (especially BrE) 混合肥料堆;糞肥堆VERB + HEAP➤be piled in堆積起來◇Papers were piled in great heaps on the desk.文件在辦公桌上堆積如山。➤collapse in, fall down in, fall in (allfigurative) 癱倒◇He collapsed in an exhausted heap on the floor.他精疲力竭地癱倒在地板上。PREPOSITION➤in a/the heap成堆◇His clothes lay in a crumpled heap on the floor.他的衣服亂糟糟地堆在地板上。➤on a/the heap, onto a/the heap在⋯堆上;到⋯堆上◇Throw the potato peelings on the compost heap.把土豆皮扔到肥料堆上。➤heap of一堆⋯◇a great heap of stones一大堆石頭PHRASES➤the bottom of the heap, the top of the heap (figurative) ( 機構或社會的 ) 底部/頂部◇These workers are at the bottom of the economic heap.這些工人處於經濟結構的底層。