wastefulness
- n.浪费;浪费,挥霍,耗费
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: waste dissipation
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- the trait of wasting resources
- a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
- the wastefulness of missed opportunities
- Synonym: thriftlessness waste
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Everybody ' s pained to see such wastefulness .
任何人看到这种浪费现象都会很痛心的。
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It seems to be a part of our culture of plenty , even though wastefulness is always discouraged .
浪费似乎是我们富裕生活文化的一个组成部分,尽管这种行为总是遭到阻止的。
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Thanks to our wastefulness in the 20th century , Earth 's oceans may be polluted forever .
由于20世纪我们挥霍无度,地球海洋已经被污染了。
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Other societies have begun to imitate the wastefulness of the west .
其他社会已开始仿效西方的挥霍浪费。
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It is this terrible wastefulness that has got us into the mess we are in now .
正是这可怕的浪费使我们陷入了目前的困境。
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This kind of spending in a young company isn 't a sign of success - it 's a sign of wastefulness .
一家初出茅庐的初创公司这样乱花钱,绝对不是成功的好兆头——它只是败家的标志。
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It 's clear redundancy , wastefulness and inefficiency .
这显然是人浮于事、浪费物力以及效率低下。
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Greenpeace activists crush light bulbs during a protest against energy wastefulness in berlin , germany .
4月20日德国柏林,绿色和平组织的成员将一些灯泡碾碎以此抗议能源浪费现象。
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If your Value Stream Map reveals long test " cycles " in the end game , it 's very likely that you are guaranteeing wastefulness .
如果您的价值流图揭示了长期测试的“循环”,那么就能保证其中无效率内容的存在了。
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We 're pained to see such wastefulness .
我们看到这种浪费现象很痛心。
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He thinks scorn of wastefulness in his superiors .
他蔑视他的上级挥霍浪费。
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Wherever we happen to be , we must treasure our manpower and material resources , and must not take a short view and indulge in wastefulness and extravagance .
任何地方必须十分爱惜人力物力,决不可只顾一时,滥用浪费。
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They look to spread ideas of peace , respect , harmony between people , eco-living and offer an alternative to modern day trends of capitalism , consumerism , mass-media and general wastefulness .
他们传递着和平、尊重、人与人之间的和谐以及生态居住的概念,提供了一个现代社会发展趋势,可以替代资本主义、消费主义、大众媒体和普遍浪费。
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All these-plus the yield-reductions that may come from climate change , and wastefulness in getting food to markets-mean that the big problems are to do with supply , not demand .
所有这些,再加上气候变化可能带来的产量减少,和将食物运入市场过程中的浪费,都意味着大问题不在需求,而在于供应。
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Carnegie and Rockefeller reflected this in calling their thoughtful , long-term approach to giving " scientific philanthropy " ( today 's donors call it " strategic philanthropy " ) , which they contrasted with the short-term wastefulness of much of the charity of the time .
卡耐基和洛克菲勒在“科学性慈善”(今天的慈善家称其为“战略性慈善”)方式中反映了这一点,那是经过它们深思熟虑并长期执行的,他们把它与当时很多慈善的短期浪费相对比。