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浪费;白费

If you waste something such as time, money, or energy, you use too much of it doing something that is not important or necessary, or is unlikely to succeed.

1. There could be many reasons and he was not going to waste time speculating on them...

   原因可能有很多，他不打算浪费时间对此妄加猜测。

2. I resolved not to waste money on a hotel...

   我决心不住酒店，以免浪费钱。

3. The system wastes a large amount of water.

   这套系统浪费了大量的水。

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浪费;滥用;糟蹋

Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it.

1. The packets are measured to reduce waste...

   包裹的大小经过测量以减少浪费。

2. I hate waste.

   我讨厌浪费。

3

废物;废料

Waste is material which has been used and is no longer wanted, for example because the valuable or useful part of it has been taken out.

1. Congress passed a law that regulates the disposal of waste...

   国会通过了一项规范废弃物处理的法律。

2. Up to 10 million tonnes of toxic wastes are produced every year in the UK.

   英国每年会产生多达1,000万吨的有毒废弃物。

3. ...the process of eliminating body waste.

   身体排泄物的排出过程

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错过(机会)

If you waste an opportunity for something, you do not take advantage of it when it is available.

1. Let's not waste an opportunity to see the children...

   咱们别错过了看孩子们的机会。

2. It was a wasted opportunity.

   这是一个错失了的良机。

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（因不被接受、理解等而）浪费（建议等）；使徒劳无益

If you say that something is wasted on someone, you mean that there is no point giving it or telling it to them as they will not appreciate, understand, or pay any attention to it.

1. All the well-meant, sincere advice is largely wasted on him.

   他对所有善意、真挚的建议基本都无动于衷。

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(尤指市内或市郊的土地)荒芜的，荒废的

Waste land is land, especially in or near a city, which is not used or looked after by anyone, and so is covered by wild plants and rubbish.

1. There was a patch of waste land behind the church...

   教堂的后面有一块荒地。

2. Yarrow can be found growing wild in fields and on waste ground.

   田野里和荒地上会疯长蓍草。

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荒漠;沙漠

Wastes are a large area of land, for example a desert, in which there are very few people, plants, or animals.

1. ...the barren wastes of the Sahara.

   贫瘠的撒哈拉沙漠

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被浪费;被糟蹋掉

If something goes to waste, it remains unused or has to be thrown away.

1. So much of his enormous effort and talent will go to waste if we are forced to drop one hour of the film...

   如果我们被迫把电影缩短1小时，那么他付出的许多努力就会白费，他的才华也将大半被淹没。

2. Mexican cookery is economical, she says. Nothing goes to waste.

   “墨西哥的烹调注重俭省，”她说，“任何东西都不会浪费。”

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摧毁;把…变为荒地

If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.

1. The war has laid waste large regions of the countryside.

   这场战争摧毁了大片村庄。

2. ...cities laid waste by the decline of traditional industries...

   因传统工业衰落而没落的城市

3. The aphid is now laying waste to the wheat and barley fields.

   蚜虫正在毁掉一片片的小麦和大麦田地。

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勤俭节约，吃穿不缺

The expression waste not, want not means that if you do not use too much of something now you will have some left later when you need it.

1. ...a nation that prides itself on its 'waste not, want not' thrift and its environmental conscience.

   为其“俭以防匮”的节俭作风和环保意识而自豪的国家

1

使用不当

not use well

2

浪费；滥用

to use more of sth than is necessary or useful

3

浪费时间 / 食物 / 能源

to waste time/food/energy

4

为什么浪费钱买你不需要的衣服呢？

Why waste money on clothes you don't need?

5

她当即拒绝了提议。

She wasted no time in rejecting the offer (= she rejected it immediately) .

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你跟他解释是在浪费时间。

You're wasting your time trying to explain it to him (= because he will not understand) .

7

白费；糟蹋

to give, say, use, etc. sth good where it is not valued or used in the way that it should be

8

别把你的同情心白白浪费在他的身上，他是咎由自取。

Don't waste your sympathy on him─he got what he deserved.

9

她对克里斯的一席话没有白费。

Her comments were not wasted on Chris (= he understood what she meant) .

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未充分利用；使…屈才

to not make good or full use of sb/sth

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这白白浪费了一次机会。

It was a wasted opportunity.

12

你当销售经理屈才了，你本应该做演员。

You're wasted as a sales manager─you should have been an actor.

13

杀人

kill sb

14

干掉；把…废了；杀死

to get rid of sb, usually by killing them

15

打败

defeat sb

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（游戏或比赛中）大胜，把…打得落花流水

to defeat sb very badly in a game or competition

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白费唇舌

to say sth that nobody takes any notice of

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勤俭节约，吃穿不缺

if you never waste anything, especially food or money, you will always have it when you need it

19

人

of a person

20

（尤指因病）变得瘦弱

to become thin and weak, especially because of illness

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非充分利用

not good use

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浪费；滥用

the act of using sth in a careless or unnecessary way, causing it to be lost or destroyed

23

我憎恨不必要的浪费。

I hate unnecessary waste.

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把好的食物扔掉似乎太浪费了。

It seems such a waste to throw good food away.

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我不愿看到好好的食物被扔掉。

I hate to see good food go to waste (= be thrown away) .

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报告批评了这个部门对资源的浪费。

The report is critical of the department's waste of resources.

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多么浪费纸啊！

What a waste of paper!

28

白费；糟蹋

a situation in which it is not worth spending time, money, etc. on sth

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这些会议完全是白费时间。

These meetings are a complete waste of time .

30

他们认为这座雕像糟蹋了纳税人的钱。

They believe the statue is a waste of taxpayers' money.

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材料

materials

32

废料；废物；弃物；垃圾

materials that are no longer needed and are thrown away

33

家庭垃圾；工业废料

household/industrial waste

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有毒废物

toxic wastes

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废物处理

waste disposal (= the process of getting rid of waste)

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土地

land

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人烟稀少的地区；荒芜地区；荒原

a large area of land where there are very few people, animals or plants

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西伯利亚的冻土荒原

the frozen wastes of Siberia

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无用的人；干什么都不行的人；废物；饭桶

a person who is useless or no good at anything

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土地

land

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荒芜的；废弃的

not suitable for building or growing things on and therefore not used

42

那辆车是在一块荒地里发现的。

The car was found on a piece of waste ground.

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材料

materials

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废弃的；丢弃的；无用的

no longer needed for a particular process and therefore thrown away

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工厂里的污水被抽到了附近的河里。

Waste water is pumped from the factory into a nearby river.

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彻底毁坏（某地）；把…夷为平地

to destroy a place completely

1

useless or profitless activity;using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly

例子:

1. if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste
2. mindless dissipation of natural resources

近义词: wastefulness,dissipation

2

(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

近义词: permissive waste

3

the trait of wasting resources

例子:

1. a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
2. the wastefulness of missed opportunities

近义词: thriftlessness,wastefulness

4

an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

例子:

1. the barrens of central Africa
2. the trackless wastes of the desert

近义词: barren,wasteland

5

any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted

例子:

1. they collect the waste once a week
2. much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers

近义词: waste material,waste matter,waste product

6

become physically weaker

例子:

1. Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world

近义词: rot

7

cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

例子:

1. The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

近义词: lay waste to,devastate,desolate,ravage,scourge

8

cause to grow thin or weak

例子:

1. The treatment emaciated him

近义词: emaciate,macerate

9

lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

例子:

1. After her husband died, she just pined away

近义词: pine away,languish

10

spend extravagantly

例子:

1. waste not, want not

近义词: consume,squander,ware

11

use inefficiently or inappropriately

例子:

1. waste heat
2. waste a joke on an unappreciative audience

12

get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

例子:

1. The mafia liquidated the informer
2. the double agent was neutralized

近义词: neutralize,neutralise,liquidate,knock off,do in

13

run off as waste

例子:

1. The water wastes back into the ocean

近义词: run off

14

get rid of

例子:

1. We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer

15

spend thoughtlessly;throw away

例子:

1. He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
2. You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree

近义词: blow,squander

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located in a dismal or remote area;desolate

例子:

1. a desert island
2. a godforsaken wilderness crossroads
3. a wild stretch of land
4. waste places

近义词: godforsaken,wild