waste
- vt.浪费;白费;滥用;糟蹋;干掉;使…屈才;未充分利用;（游戏或比赛中）大胜，把…打得落花流水
- n.废物;浪费;垃圾;废料;白费;滥用;糟蹋;弃物;人烟稀少的地区
- adj.废弃的;丢弃的;无用的;荒芜的
wasteverb
使用不当 not use well
浪费；滥用
to use more of sth than is necessary or useful
to waste time/food/energy
浪费时间 / 食物 / 能源
Why waste money on clothes you don't need?
为什么浪费钱买你不需要的衣服呢？
She wasted no time in rejecting the offer (= she rejected it immediately) .
她当即拒绝了提议。
You're wasting your time trying to explain it to him (= because he will not understand) .
你跟他解释是在浪费时间。
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
Don't waste your sympathy on him─he got what he deserved.
别把你的同情心白白浪费在他的身上，他是咎由自取。
Her comments were not wasted on Chris (= he understood what she meant) .
她对克里斯的一席话没有白费。
未充分利用；使…屈才
to not make good or full use of sb/sth
It was a wasted opportunity.
这白白浪费了一次机会。
You're wasted as a sales manager─you should have been an actor.
你当销售经理屈才了，你本应该做演员。
杀人 kill sb
干掉；把…废了；杀死
to get rid of sb, usually by killing them
打败 defeat sb
（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
to say sth that nobody takes any notice of
if you never waste anything, especially food or money, you will always have it when you need it
（尤指因病）变得瘦弱
to become thin and weak, especially because of illness
noun
非充分利用 not good use
浪费；滥用
the act of using sth in a careless or unnecessary way, causing it to be lost or destroyed
I hate unnecessary waste.
我憎恨不必要的浪费。
It seems such a waste to throw good food away.
把好的食物扔掉似乎太浪费了。
I hate to see good food go to waste (= be thrown away) .
我不愿看到好好的食物被扔掉。
The report is critical of the department's waste of resources.
报告批评了这个部门对资源的浪费。
What a waste of paper!
多么浪费纸啊！
白费；糟蹋
a situation in which it is not worth spending time, money, etc. on sth
These meetings are a complete waste of time .
这些会议完全是白费时间。
They believe the statue is a waste of taxpayers' money.
他们认为这座雕像糟蹋了纳税人的钱。
材料 materials
废料；废物；弃物；垃圾
materials that are no longer needed and are thrown away
household/industrial waste
家庭垃圾；工业废料
toxic wastes
有毒废物
waste disposal (= the process of getting rid of waste)
废物处理
土地 land
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
the frozen wastes of Siberia
西伯利亚的冻土荒原
a person who is useless or no good at anything
adj.
土地 land
荒芜的；废弃的
not suitable for building or growing things on and therefore not used
The car was found on a piece of waste ground.
那辆车是在一块荒地里发现的。
材料 materials
废弃的；丢弃的；无用的
no longer needed for a particular process and therefore thrown away
Waste water is pumped from the factory into a nearby river.
工厂里的污水被抽到了附近的河里。
to destroy a place completely
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VERB 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.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。
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N-UNCOUNT 浪费;滥用;糟蹋
Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it.The packets are measured to reduce waste...
包裹的大小经过测量以减少浪费。
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N-UNCOUNT 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.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。
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VERB 错过(机会)
If you waste an opportunity for something, you do not take advantage of it when it is available.Let's not waste an opportunity to see the children...
咱们别错过了看孩子们的机会。
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VERB （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.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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ADJ (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.There was a patch of waste land behind the church...
教堂的后面有一块荒地。
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N-PLURAL 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....the barren wastes of the Sahara.
贫瘠的撒哈拉沙漠
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PHRASE 被浪费;被糟蹋掉
If something goes to waste, it remains unused or has to be thrown away.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。
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PHRASE 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.The war has laid waste large regions of the countryside.
这场战争摧毁了大片村庄。
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PHRASE 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....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
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to waste your breath→ see:breath
noun
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- useless or profitless activity;using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste
- mindless dissipation of natural resources
- Synonym: wastefulness dissipation
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- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- Synonym: permissive waste
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- the trait of wasting resources
- a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
- the wastefulness of missed opportunities
- Synonym: thriftlessness wastefulness
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- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the barrens of central Africa
- the trackless wastes of the desert
- Synonym: barren wasteland
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- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- they collect the waste once a week
- much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers
- Synonym: waste material waste matter waste product
verb
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- become physically weaker
- Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
- Synonym: rot
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- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
- Synonym: lay waste to devastate desolate ravage scourge
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- cause to grow thin or weak
- The treatment emaciated him
- Synonym: emaciate macerate
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- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
- After her husband died, she just pined away
- Synonym: pine away languish
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- spend extravagantly
- waste not, want not
- Synonym: consume squander ware
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- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- waste heat
- waste a joke on an unappreciative audience
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- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- The mafia liquidated the informer
- the double agent was neutralized
- Synonym: neutralize neutralise liquidate knock off do in
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- run off as waste
- The water wastes back into the ocean
- Synonym: run off
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- get rid of
- We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer
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- spend thoughtlessly;throw away
- He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
- You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree
- Synonym: blow squander
adj
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- located in a dismal or remote area;desolate
- a desert island
- a godforsaken wilderness crossroads
- a wild stretch of land
- waste places
- Synonym: godforsaken wild
数据来源：WordNet
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In my view it was a waste of time .
依我看，这是浪费时间。
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It 's a waste of time and energy .
那是浪费时间和精力。
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The car was found on a piece of waste ground .
那辆车是在一块荒地里发现的。
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What a waste of paper !
多么浪费纸啊！
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The report is critical of the department 's waste of resources .
报告批评了这个部门对资源的浪费。
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The project wasted a considerable amount of time and money .
那项工程耗费了相当多的时间和资金。
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It seems such a waste to throw good food away .
把好的食物扔掉似乎太浪费了。
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Don 't waste good money on that !
别把辛苦挣来的钱浪费在那上头！
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Why waste money on clothes you don 't need ?
为什么浪费钱买你不需要的衣服呢？
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Attempts are being made to solve the problem of waste disposal .
正在想办法解决废物处理的问题。
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The kids were playing on waste ground near the school .
孩子们在学校附近的荒地玩耍。
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It makes me wild to see such waste .
看到这种浪费现象让我非常生气。
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These meetings are a complete waste of time .
这些会议完全是白费时间。
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This is a criminal waste of resources .
这是一种浪费资源的可耻行为。
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As the waste materials decompose , they produce methane gas .
废物腐烂时会产生沼气。
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Don 't waste space by leaving a wide margin .
页边不要留太宽浪费版面。
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The problem is getting rid of nuclear waste .
问题是如何处理核废料。
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His parents really laid into him for wasting so much money .
他因挥霍这么多钱财被父母狠狠地责骂了一顿。
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Waste water is pumped from the factory into a nearby river .
工厂里的污水被抽到了附近的河里。
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It 's a sin to waste taxpayers ' money like that .
这样挥霍纳税人的钱太不应该。
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It was too expensive , to say nothing of the time it wasted .
这太贵了，更不用说它浪费的时间了。
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The river has been polluted with toxic waste from local factories .
当地工厂排放的有毒废弃物污染了这条河。
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I don 't want to waste time on trivialities .
我不想把时间浪费在一些琐碎小事上。
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Too much toxic waste is being dumped at sea .
太多的有毒废料在向大海里倾倒。
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It 's heartbreaking to see him wasting his life like this .
看到他如此糟蹋自己的生命真让人心碎。
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It seems a pity to waste this food .
浪费这些食物真可惜。
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It 's a crying shame to waste all that food .
那么些食物都浪费了，真是太不像话了。
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A solution to the problem of toxic waste is proving elusive .
有毒废料这个问题证明难以解决。
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Many factories emptied their waste into the river .
许多工厂都将污水排进了这条河里。
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The waste paper is baled , then sent for recycling .
废纸被打成大包，然后送去回收再利用。
多指生活中的有机废料，如废纸、包装盒、剩饭剩菜或变质的食物等。
Tom went to dump the garbage.
汤姆去倒垃圾。
Garbage pollutes our rivers and lakes.
垃圾污染我们的河川湖泊。
指某处堆积的垃圾或某种材料无用的碎渣、碎片等。
The ditches had filled up with mud and debris.
沟渠中塞满了淤泥和垃圾。
Was the debris removed in your presence?
你在现场时，碎渣等垃圾是否清除掉了？
指没有用处、毫无价值的废旧物品。
There is a heap of junk in the corner.
墙角有一堆废旧杂物。
He threw away all the junk in the boot of his car.
他把汽车行李箱中所有废旧杂物都扔掉了。
尤指在公共场所散落于地、有碍观瞻的废弃物。
Don't drop litter anywhere.
请不要乱扔垃圾。
There were piles of litter in the streets.
街道上垃圾成堆。
普通用词，指扔掉的食物、废纸等；也可指任何不再使用而应该扔掉的东西，但作此义解时多用于非正式文体。
They burnt up all the garden rubbish.
他们将花园中的垃圾全部烧掉了。
The dustman comes once a week to collect the rubbish.
垃圾工每周来收一次垃圾。
Oh God, he's got so much rubbish on his desk!
天哪，他桌上有那么多垃圾！
普通用词，多指已无使用价值的材料或陈旧的、破损的物品，也可指任何被丢弃之物。
household/industrial waste
家庭垃圾/工业废料
Put all the waste in this bag.
把所有垃圾放进这只袋子里。
They disposed of the city's waste in the sea.
他们把城里的垃圾倒入海中。
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garbage junk trash dead loss wastrel debris toerag dross squander pollution wastage dud abuse scrap dead wood litter dissipation rubbish wild refuse detritus profligacy misuse