waste 英 [weɪst] 　 美 [west]

waste

waste　 英 [weɪst] 美 [west]

n. 浪费；废物；　 v. 浪费；挥霍　 adj. 废弃的；荒芜的　

进行时:wasting　 过去式:wasted　 过去分词:wasted　 第三人称单数:wastes　 名词复数:wastes　

to waste time, to waste food　浪费时间╱食物
Why waste money on clothes you don't need?　为什么浪费钱买你不需要的衣服呢？

  • If waste is useless, then to waste is to fritter away. Don't waste time putting your waste paper in the waste basket, just chuck it in the recycling bin.
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  • n. 浪费；废物；
  • v. 浪费；挥霍
  • adj. 废弃的；荒芜的

  • 1. to waste time, to waste food

    浪费时间╱食物

  • 2. Why waste money on clothes you don't need?

    为什么浪费钱买你不需要的衣服呢？

  • 3. It was a wasted opportunity.

    这白白浪费了一次机会。

  • 4. I hate unnecessary waste.

    我憎恨不必要的浪费。

  • 5. It seems such a waste to throw good food away.

    把好的食物扔掉似乎太浪费了。

  • 6. What a waste of paper!

    多么浪费纸啊！

  • 7. waste disposal

    废物处理

  • 8. waste plastic

    废塑料

  • waste (adj.) c. 1300, of land, "desolate, uncultivated," from Anglo-French and Old North French waste (Old French gaste), from Latin vastus "empty, desolate," from PIE *wasto-, extended suffixed form of root *eue- "to leave, abandon, give out." From c. 1400 as "superfluous, excess;" 1670s as "unfit for use." Waste-paper attested from 1580s.
  • waste (n.) c. 1200, "desolate regions," from Anglo-French and Old North French wast "waste, damage, destruction; wasteland, moor" (Old French gast), from Latin vastum, neuter of vastus "empty, desolate," from PIE *wasto-, extended suffixed form of root *eue- "to leave, abandon, give out."
  • waste (v.) c. 1200, "devastate, ravage, ruin," from Anglo-French and Old North French waster "to waste, squander, spoil, ruin" (Old French gaster; Modern French gâter), altered (by influence of Frankish *wostjan) from Latin vastare "lay waste," from vastus "empty, desolate," from PIE *wasto-, extended suffixed form of root *eue- "to leave, abandon, give out." Related: wasted; wasting.
waste ★ / weɪst ; NAmE weɪst / verb , noun , adjective waste wastes wasted wasting verb ★ not use well 使用不当 1 ★ to use more of sth than is necessary or useful 浪费；滥用 wastesth ◆ to waste time/food/energy 浪费时间╱食物╱能源 wastesth on sth ◆ Why waste money on clothes you don't need? 为什么浪费钱买你不需要的衣服呢？ wastesth (in) doing sth ◆ She wasted no timein rejecting the offer (= she rejected it immediately). 她当即拒绝了提议。 ◆ You're wasting your timetrying to explain it to him (= because he will not understand). 你跟他解释是在浪费时间。 2 wastesth (on sb/sth) to give, say, use, etc. sth good where it is not valued or used in the way that it should be 白费；糟蹋 ◆ 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。 3 ★ [usually passive ] to not make good or full use of sb/sth 未充分利用；使…屈才 wastesb/sth ◆ It was a wasted opportunity. 这白白浪费了一次机会。 wastesb/sth as sth ◆ 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。 kill sb 杀人 4 wastesb ( informal) ( especially NAmE) to get rid of sb, usually by killing them 干掉；把…废了；杀死 defeat sb 打败 5 wastesb ( NAmE) ( informal) to defeat sb very badly in a game or competition （游戏或比赛中）大胜，把…打得落花流水 IDIOMS waste your ˈbreath to say sth that nobody takes any notice of 白费唇舌 ˌwaste not, ˈwant not ( saying) if you never waste anything, especially food or money, you will always have it when you need it 勤俭节约，吃穿不缺 PHRASAL VERB ˌwaste aˈway (of a person 人 ) to become thin and weak, especially because of illness （尤指因病）变得瘦弱 SYN become emaciated noun ★ not good use 非充分利用 1 ★ [uncountable ,  singular ] waste(of sth) the act of using sth in a careless or unnecessary way, causing it to be lost or destroyed 浪费；滥用 ◆ 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！ 2 ★ [singular ] a situation in which it is not worth spending time, money, etc. on sth 白费；糟蹋 ◆ 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。 materials 材料 3 ★ [uncountable ] ( alsowastes [plural ] ) materials that are no longer needed and are thrown away 废料；废物；弃物；垃圾 ◆ 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 4 ( also ˌwaste ˈmatter ) [uncountable ] material that the body gets rid of as solid or liquid material 粪便 ◆ 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。 land 土地 5 wastes [plural ] ( formal) a large area of land where there are very few people, animals or plants 人烟稀少的地区；荒芜地区；荒原 ◆ the frozen wastes of Siberia 西伯利亚的冻土荒原 IDIOM a waste of ˈspace ( informal) a person who is useless or no good at anything 无用的人；干什么都不行的人；废物；饭桶 adjective ★ [usually before noun ] land 土地 1 ★ not suitable for building or growing things on and therefore not used 荒芜的；废弃的 SYN derelict ◆ The car was found on a piece of waste ground. 那辆车是在一块荒地里发现的。 materials 材料 2 ★ no longer needed for a particular process and therefore thrown away 废弃的；丢弃的；无用的 ◆ waste plastic 废塑料 IDIOM lay sth ˈwaste | lay ˈwaste (to) sth ( formal) to destroy a place completely 彻底毁坏（某地）；把…夷为平地 waste / weɪst ; NAmE weɪst /
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