waste
美 [we?st] 
英 [we?st]
- n.垃圾；廢物；浪費；廢料
- v.浪費；白費；糟蹋；濫用
- adj.荒蕪的；廢棄的；丟棄的；無用的
- 網絡廢棄物；損耗
詞形變化
第三人稱單數：wastes 現在分詞：wasting 過去式：wasted 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
使用不當not use well
1. | 浪費；濫用to use more of sth than is necessary or useful |
| to waste time/food/energy 浪費時間╱食物╱能源 |
| Why waste money on clothes you don't need? 為什么浪費錢買你不需要的衣服呢？ |
| She wasted no time in rejecting the offer(= she rejected it immediately) . 她當即拒絕了提議。 |
| You're wasting your time trying to explain it to him(= because he will not understand) . 你跟他解釋是在浪費時間。 |
2. | ~ sth (on sb/sth) 白費；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. 別把你的同情心白白浪費在他的身上，他是咎由自取。 |
| Her comments were not wasted on Chris(= he understood what she meant) . 她對克里斯的一席話沒有白費。 |
3. | [usupass] 未充分利用；使…屈才to not make good or full use of sb/sth |
| It was a wasted opportunity. 這白白浪費了一次機會。 |
| You're wasted as a sales manager─you should have been an actor. 你當銷售經理屈才了，你本應該做演員。 |
殺人kill sb
4. |
~ sb 干掉；把…廢了；殺死to get rid of sb, usually by killing them |
打敗defeat sb
5. |
~ sb （游戲或比賽中）大勝，把…打得落花流水to defeat sb very badly in a game or competition |
非充分利用not good use
1. | [u][sing] ~ (of sth) 浪費；濫用the act of using sth in a careless or unnecessary way, causing it to be lost or destroyed |
| I hate unnecessary waste. 我憎恨不必要的浪費。 |
| It seems such a waste to throw good food away. 把好的食物扔掉似乎太浪費了。 |
| 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. 報告批評了這個部門對資源的浪費。 |
| What a waste of paper! 多么浪費紙啊！ |
2. | [sing] 白費；糟蹋a situation in which it is not worth spending time, money, etc. on sth |
| These meetings are a complete waste of time . 這些會議完全是白費時間。 |
| They believe the statue is a waste of taxpayers' money. 他們認為這座雕像糟蹋了納稅人的錢。 |
材料materials
3. | [u] 廢料；廢物；棄物；垃圾materials that are no longer needed and are thrown away |
| household/industrial waste 生活垃圾；工業廢料 |
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| waste disposal(= the process of getting rid of waste) 廢物處理 |
4. | [u] 糞便material that the body gets rid of as solid or liquid material |
| The farmers use both animal and human waste as fertilizer. 農民把牲畜和人類的糞便都用作肥料。 |
土地land
5. | [pl] 人煙稀少的地區；荒蕪地區；荒原a large area of land where there are very few people, animals or plants |
| the frozen wastes of Siberia 西伯利亞的凍土荒原 |
土地land
1. | 荒蕪的；廢棄的not suitable for building or growing things on and therefore not used |
| The car was found on a piece of waste ground. 那輛車是在一塊荒地里發現的。 |
材料materials
2. | 廢棄的；丟棄的；無用的no longer needed for a particular process and therefore thrown away |
習慣用語
waste your breath
白費唇舌to say sth that nobody takes any notice of
waste not, want not
勤儉節約，吃穿不缺if you never waste anything, especially food or money, you will always have it when you need it
a waste of space
無用的人；干什么都不行的人；廢物；飯桶a person who is useless or no good at anything
lay sth waste|lay waste (to) sth
徹底毀壞（某地）；把…夷為平地to destroy a place completely
英漢解釋
adj. | |
v. | 3. 消耗,使衰弱;【法】(因使用不當而)損壞(房屋等);把(石頭)解成適當的大小 |
n. | 4. 消耗(量),損耗;衰弱;漸損;【法】毀損,損壞 |
英英解釋
例句
Dump trucks were loaded with construction waste as the site was prepared for a siesta that could last up to six months, if not longer.
自傾卡車裝滿建筑垃圾，這個工地可能停工6個月，如果不是更長的話。
The crowd carried me out to the center of the lawn, then dropped me on my back in what felt like a pile of fresh dog waste.
人群將我帶到了草坪的中心，然后把我像一堆狗屎一樣四腳朝天的丟在地上。
ks: it's a relief that she has someone like you by her side. Someone who wouldnt consider giving up everything for her a waste. That's it.
江石；有你在她身邊使我很放心。一個能為她放棄全世界的人。就這樣了。
We were very fortunate to be able to work with Her, so how could we not try our best and thus waste the merit that God had bestowed on us?
我們有幸跟著明師弘法，怎能不盡心盡力？枉費上帝賜予的福報。
The polymer iron sulfate has been used to handle industrial water and waste water in Hefei Iron &Steel Group Co.
目前，聚合硫酸鐵在合鋼已用于處理工業用水和廢水，實際運行效果顯著。
Referring to this journal often will show you how much time you waste by worrying.
經常回顧這本日志會告訴你你在憂慮上浪費了多少時間。
Municipal waste could supply at least half of that in the form of ethanol for motor vehicles.
用城市垃圾至少可以供應180億加侖，用于機動車輛。
Battelle Laboratories and I joined up in Bellingham, Washington, there were four piles saturated with diesel and other petroleum waste.
巴特爾實驗室和我一起在華盛頓貝靈漢，我們有四堆用柴油和其它石油廢液浸透的絨布。
Inadequate water element leads to a sticky waste management system in which toxins build up to a point of creating disease.
不充分的水元素導致一個粘性的廢物處理系統，在其中毒素增進到制造疾病的點。
What a waste, we could be H U G E with him in top shape and with top motivation.
多浪費啊，如果他在最佳狀態，動力十足的話，我們將會非常厲害。爵士隊什么地方出了問題…該死。
Water used for agricultural production and solid waste used as fertilizers shall be in conformity with the standards set by the State.
農業生產用水和用作肥料的固體廢物，應當符合國家規定的標準。
You know it, I know it, but let's not waste time, our time, talking about these mistakes because we'll spend all day here.
你知我也知，但是就別浪費時間，別浪費我們的時間去談論這些錯誤了，因為那會花上我們一整天。
So don't waste any more time trying to be a second class somebody else and get on with being a first class you!
所以，別再浪費更多時間努力成為一個”二等“的別人了；去做”一等“的你！
I'll make it attractive for you to leave so that none of us waste any time.
我會創造條件，讓你離開，那么大家都不會浪費時間。
"What this shows is there's also a huge surge in locally-generated e-waste in those countries that will need to be dealt with, " he said.
“報告表明，在那些發展中國家，本地產生的電子垃圾量也有一個激增，也需要處理，”他說。
He collected waste paper as a means of living, and he liked such a way of living.
他以收集廢紙為生（活手段），并且喜歡這種生活體式格局。
But a Chinese lawyer advised him in an e-mail that "any appeal is basically a waste of time. "
但一名中國律師在電郵中給她的建議是，“任何上訴基本都是浪費時間”。
We do not know in the next six months will generate number of waste page, or not in the next month or two months of waste production.
我們不知道在未來六個月中將會產生多少張廢頁，甚至預測不出未來一個月或兩個月內的廢料產量。
Schabus seems to be making a point about the enormity of modern waste and its terrifying impact on the planet.
Schabus似乎在表明這一觀點，即現代廢棄物十分嚴重，對這個星球造成了可怕的影響。
If you don't spend the time to backup your data and the hard drive crashes, how much time will you waste trying to recover files?
如果你不愿意花點時間備份數據，要是硬盤崩潰，你需要花多少時間恢復文件？
The waste rocks are mucked out every day.
矸石每天要清除一次。
What manner of men choked off the life in rivers, streams and lakes with the waste of their produce?
什么樣的人把生產的廢料拋進河流，小溪和湖泊，窒息了水中生物的生命？
In light of the hazards and uncertainties associated with subsurface waste disposal, deep well injection may create pollution problems.
由于地表下廢水處置的危險性和不可靠性，深井注入也會產生污染。
Because of local resistance, federal intervention may be necessary to designate certain sites for hazardous-waste-disposal facilities.
由于地方上的阻力，或許有必要通過聯邦政府的調解來指定某些近便的有害廢物處理場。
It's a crying shame to waste all that food.
那么些食物都浪費了，真是太不像話了。
As these broad black raindrops mingle with the waste of waters, making a trifling and momentary eddy, and are then lost for ever.
就象這些沉重的黑色的雨點一樣落在茫茫大海里，只引起一道微不足道、瞬息的漣漪，從此永無蹤影。
The land lies waste [uncultivated].
地荒了。
They were appalled at the waste of recyclable material.
他們憎惡有人浪費可回收材料。
A simplified waste survey technique for the textile industry has been suggested.
有人提出了紡織工業廢水污物的簡化監測技術。
Rivers are often defiled by waste from factories.
河水常被工廠來的廢物弄臟。
The invading armies laid waste the countryside.
侵略軍把這一鄉間地區夷為平地。
Many candidates waste a good part of their interview explaining why they want the job.
許多候選人在晤談中浪費很多時間去解釋他們為什么想從事這個職業。
It's a crime to waste so much money.
揮霍這么多錢是一種罪過。
The whole area was laid waste by the advancing army.
整個地區被前進的軍隊破壞了。
If people want to solve the problem of waste, there is no time to be lost.
如果人們想要解決垃圾問題，那已經是刻不容緩的了。
"Waste this on plants? You take my advice and have billiard table here. "
種花草太糟蹋了！你聽我的話，在這里放一只彈子臺！
Don't dump that waste in the middle of the path!
別把那些垃圾倒在路中央！
The government frowns at any waste of taxpayers' money.
政府反對對納稅款的任何浪費。
It won't do, you know, to waste two shots on one.
一個人費兩顆子彈可不合算，知道嗎？
Don't waste your money on that new soap, it's no good.
別浪費錢去買那種新肥皂，那東西不怎么樣。
I'll not waste words on you.
我不跟你白費口舌了。
"We simply cannot continue to spend as if deficits do not have consequences, as if waste does not matter, " he added.
奧巴馬說：“我們就是不能繼續不考慮赤字的后果而花錢，不能不考慮浪費的后果而花錢。”
From the bacterial point of view, methane is just as much of a waste product as faeces are from the human viewpoint.
從細菌的角度來看，甲烷也只是它們產生的一種廢物，就跟糞便是人類的排泄物一樣。
To be star-struck and not to be able to do anything because you're too nervous is to waste the moment, instead of making the most of it.
被巨星震撼到和因為太緊張而無法做任何事情，是浪費了這一個時刻啊，相反地，你應該盡可能多的利用這個時刻。
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. . . forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of the hatred, the waste of spirits.
寬恕是心靈的一種節約措施—它節省了生氣的開支，仇恨的成本，和精神的浪費。
In either case, World of Warcraft has no "crafting failures" that cause you to waste raw materials, thus leaving you empty-handed.
無論如何，魔獸世界里沒有“制作失敗”這個設定來讓你浪費了原材料而兩手空空。
Again I ask her: you think you now, in all the work of the most pointless waste of your time and energy work is what?
我又問她：你覺得，在你現在所有的工作中，最沒有意義的最浪費你的時間精力的工作，是什么？
This is usually the result of a few days left to Gouchi rice, resulting in considerable waste.
這樣做的結果通常是剩下可以夠吃好幾天的飯，造成相當大的浪費。
Those who appeared to be a scum of the "waste" has helped me achieve the boring, the formation of decadent ideas, mature.
那些看似是個敗類的“浪費”卻幫助我實現了無聊、頹廢思想的形成、成熟。
The high colour value or absorptivity needed for a commercial dye is not an advantage when that dye ends up in a waste stream.
當它排入廢水時，作為商品染料所必須具備的強著色值成的附性顯然對廢水處理不利。
The matter is urgent: the lack of sanitary installations and hygienic waste removal furthers the spread of disease.
最迫切的問題是：由于缺乏衛生設備和清除衛生垃圾的手段，促使了疾病的擴散。
"In the past, we didn't make it a priority to protect old buildings, or to reduce energy consumption and waste, " he says.
通過政府的支持，他認為能做到。“過去，我們沒有去優先保護老建筑，或者如何減少能耗和浪費。”
Example: Stop trying to rush through three things at once--haste makes waste, you know.
切勿試圖同時匆忙的做三件事情-欲速則不達，你是知道滴。
Urgent need to replenish nutrients inside the body and discharge waste, so the heart rate tends to increase 2 to 3 times more than usual.
身體內部急需補充養料和排出廢料，所以心跳往往比平時增加2~3倍。
They have been used to sterilize things since the 19th century, but steaming municipal waste in them is a new idea.
從19世紀起人們就用壓力鍋滅菌，但把生活垃圾裝到壓力鍋里去蒸卻是個全新的概念。
Adam Lambert : nothing to say. . . All that chat is a waste of energy. Some Folks think they know my private life. . . Well they don't.
沒有什么好說的…所有的對話都是在浪費能量。有些人以為他們知道我的私生活…實際他們不知道。
Water treatment industry, the company has integrated the latest film used in a variety of skilled equipment and waste water reuse project.
公司已將水處理行業的最新的膜集成技術熟練運用于各種純水設備及廢水回用工程。
Lightning held only terror for man until he made of electricity his servant. Steam was only so much waste until man learned to harness it.
當人們利用電能為自己服務之前對閃電只有恐懼，人們一直認為蒸汽是一種浪費知道人們了解了可以利用它來驅動機器。
For a hunter, trying to "shoot the breeze" would be a useless waste of time and bullets.
作為一個獵人，試圖去“射風”將是對時間以及子彈的浪費。
Louise Court, editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, which conducted the survey, said young women seem to think university 'a waste of time'.
這項調查是由《時尚》雜志開展的，該雜志主編路易絲康特說年輕女性似乎認為讀大學是“浪費時間”。
The behaviour of this waste or broken rock is similar to that of a clean sand or gravel.
這種廢石或碎石的行為與潔凈的砂石或礫石相類似。
