| 词汇 | waste |
| 释义 | verbnounadjective waste something to waste time/food/energy浪费时间／食物／能源 waste something on something Why waste money on clothes you don't need? 为什么浪费钱买你不需要的衣服呢？ We got straight down to business without wasting time on small talk. waste something (in) doing something 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。 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。 waste somebody/something It was a wasted opportunity. 这白白浪费了一次机会。 His talents are wasted in that job. waste somebody/something as something 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。 Don’t waste your money on a hotel room. He didn’t want to waste valuable time in idle gossip. Hurry up—there’s no time to waste! I’m not going to waste any more time on the problem. In the end her efforts were not entirely wasted. Their father hated to waste energy. You’re just wasting your breath. She never listens. Don’t waste your sympathy on her—she got what she deserved. Her comments were not wasted on Chris. 她对克里斯的一席话没有白费。 She wasted no time in rejecting the offer. 她当即拒绝了提议。 The health authority wasted millions of pounds on a computer system that never worked. Why waste money on clothes you don’t need? 为什么浪费钱买你不需要的衣服呢？ 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。 You’re wasting your time trying to explain it to him. 你跟他解释是在浪费时间。 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！ 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。 household/industrial waste生活垃圾；工业废料 toxic wastes有毒废物 waste disposal (= the process of getting rid of waste)废物处理 The farmers use both animal and human waste as fertilizer. 农民把牲畜和人类的粪便都用作肥料。 the frozen wastes of Siberia西伯利亚的冻土荒原 If nobody comes all this food will go to waste. Industrialized countries continue to export their waste. More people are dumping waste illegally. The river was used for years as an industrial waste dump. The whole thing has been a complete waste of time. Three quarters of all construction waste was recycled. Tonnes of waste are produced every year. Try to avoid unnecessary waste. a ban on waste imports a criminal waste of public money a dump containing hazardous waste a tragic waste of human life a waste of energy/resources a waste processing plant an incinerator for burning hospital waste areas contaminated by industrial waste facilities for processing radioactive waste new regulations on the feeding of slaughterhouse waste to cattle technology to convert solid waste into renewable energy the best solutions for managing waste the frozen wastes of Antarctica the highly expensive task of cleaning up toxic waste the vast amounts of electronic waste being shipped to developing countries A removable hatch allows access to the waste pipes. Around four million tons of industrial waste are disposed of each year. I hate to see good food go to waste. 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。 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。 the disposal of toxic/radioactive wastes The car was found on a piece of waste ground. 那辆车是在一块荒地里发现的。 waste plastic废塑料 Waste water is pumped from the factory into a nearby river. The invading army laid waste to towns and villages on their way to the capital. an area laid waste by war |
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