waste
美 [weɪst] 
英 [weɪst]
- n.垃圾；废物；浪费；废料
- v.浪费；白费；糟蹋；滥用
- adj.荒芜的；废弃的；丢弃的；无用的
- 网络废弃物；损耗
词形变化
第三人称单数：wastes 现在分词：wasting 过去式：wasted 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
使用不当not use well
1. | 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。 |
2. | ~ sth (on sb/sth) 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。 |
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. 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
4. |
~ sb 干掉；把…废了；杀死to get rid of sb, usually by killing them |
打败defeat sb
5. |
~ 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 |
非充分利用not good use
1. | [u][sing] ~ (of sth) 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！ |
2. | [sing] 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
3. | [u] 废料；废物；弃物；垃圾materials that are no longer needed and are thrown away |
| household/industrial waste 生活垃圾；工业废料 |
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| waste disposal(= the process of getting rid of waste) 废物处理 |
4. | [u] 粪便material that the body gets rid of as solid or liquid material |
| 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。 |
土地land
5. | [pl] 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 |
土地land
1. | 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
2. | 废弃的；丢弃的；无用的no longer needed for a particular process and therefore thrown away |
习惯用语
waste your breath
白费唇舌to say sth that nobody takes any notice of
waste not, want not
勤俭节约，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
无用的人；干什么都不行的人；废物；饭桶a person who is useless or no good at anything
lay sth waste|lay waste (to) sth
彻底毁坏（某地）；把…夷为平地to destroy a place completely
英汉解释
adj. | |
v. | 3. 消耗,使衰弱;【法】(因使用不当而)损坏(房屋等);把(石头)解成适当的大小 |
n. | 4. 消耗(量),损耗;衰弱;渐损;【法】毁损,损坏 |
英英解释
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.
自倾卡车装满建筑垃圾，这个工地可能停工6个月，如果不是更长的话。
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.
人群将我带到了草坪的中心，然后把我像一堆狗屎一样四脚朝天的丢在地上。
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；有你在她身边使我很放心。一个能为她放弃全世界的人。就这样了。
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?
我们有幸跟著明师弘法，怎能不尽心尽力？枉费上帝赐予的福报。
The polymer iron sulfate has been used to handle industrial water and waste water in Hefei Iron &Steel Group Co.
目前，聚合硫酸铁在合钢已用于处理工业用水和废水，实际运行效果显著。
Referring to this journal often will show you how much time you waste by worrying.
经常回顾这本日志会告诉你你在忧虑上浪费了多少时间。
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应180亿加仑，用于机动车辆。
Battelle Laboratories and I joined up in Bellingham, Washington, there were four piles saturated with diesel and other petroleum waste.
巴特尔实验室和我一起在华盛顿贝灵汉，我们有四堆用柴油和其它石油废液浸透的绒布。
Inadequate water element leads to a sticky waste management system in which toxins build up to a point of creating disease.
不充分的水元素导致一个粘性的废物处理系统，在其中毒素增进到制造疾病的点。
What a waste, we could be H U G E with him in top shape and with top motivation.
多浪费啊，如果他在最佳状态，动力十足的话，我们将会非常厉害。爵士队什么地方出了问题…该死。
Water used for agricultural production and solid waste used as fertilizers shall be in conformity with the standards set by the State.
农业生产用水和用作肥料的固体废物，应当符合国家规定的标准。
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，但是就别浪费时间，别浪费我们的时间去谈论这些错误了，因为那会花上我们一整天。
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，别再浪费更多时间努力成为一个”二等“的别人了；去做”一等“的你！
I'll make it attractive for you to leave so that none of us waste any time.
我会创造条件，让你离开，那么大家都不会浪费时间。
"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.
“报告表明，在那些发展中国家，本地产生的电子垃圾量也有一个激增，也需要处理，”他说。
He collected waste paper as a means of living, and he liked such a way of living.
他以收集废纸为生（活手段），并且喜欢这种生活体式格局。
But a Chinese lawyer advised him in an e-mail that "any appeal is basically a waste of time. "
但一名中国律师在电邮中给她的建议是，“任何上诉基本都是浪费时间”。
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.
我们不知道在未来六个月中将会产生多少张废页，甚至预测不出未来一个月或两个月内的废料产量。
Schabus seems to be making a point about the enormity of modern waste and its terrifying impact on the planet.
Schabus似乎在表明这一观点，即现代废弃物十分严重，对这个星球造成了可怕的影响。
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?
如果你不愿意花点时间备份数据，要是硬盘崩溃，你需要花多少时间恢复文件？
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?
什么样的人把生产的废料抛进河流，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.
由于地表下废水处置的危险性和不可靠性，深井注入也会产生污染。
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，或许有必要通过联邦政府的调解来指定某些近便的有害废物处理场。
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。
As these broad black raindrops mingle with the waste of waters, making a trifling and momentary eddy, and are then lost for ever.
就象这些沉重的黑色的雨点一样落在茫茫大海里，只引起一道微不足道、瞬息的涟漪，从此永无踪影。
The land lies waste [uncultivated].
地荒了。
They were appalled at the waste of recyclable material.
他们憎恶有人浪费可回收材料。
A simplified waste survey technique for the textile industry has been suggested.
有人提出了纺织工业废水污物的简化监测技术。
Rivers are often defiled by waste from factories.
河水常被工厂来的废物弄脏。
The invading armies laid waste the countryside.
侵略军把这一乡间地区夷为平地。
Many candidates waste a good part of their interview explaining why they want the job.
许多候选人在晤谈中浪费很多时间去解释他们为什么想从事这个职业。
It's a crime to waste so much money.
挥霍这么多钱是一种罪过。
The whole area was laid waste by the advancing army.
整个地区被前进的军队破坏了。
If people want to solve the problem of waste, there is no time to be lost.
如果人们想要解决垃圾问题，那已经是刻不容缓的了。
"Waste this on plants? You take my advice and have billiard table here. "
种花草太糟蹋了！你听我的话，在这里放一只弹子台！
Don't dump that waste in the middle of the path!
别把那些垃圾倒在路中央！
The government frowns at any waste of taxpayers' money.
政府反对对纳税款的任何浪费。
It won't do, you know, to waste two shots on one.
一个人费两颗子弹可不合算，知道吗？
Don't waste your money on that new soap, it's no good.
别浪费钱去买那种新肥皂，那东西不怎么样。
I'll not waste words on you.
我不跟你白费口舌了。
"We simply cannot continue to spend as if deficits do not have consequences, as if waste does not matter, " he added.
奥巴马说：“我们就是不能继续不考虑赤字的后果而花钱，不能不考虑浪费的后果而花钱。”
From the bacterial point of view, methane is just as much of a waste product as faeces are from the human viewpoint.
从细菌的角度来看，甲烷也只是它们产生的一种废物，就跟粪便是人类的排泄物一样。
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.
被巨星震撼到和因为太紧张而无法做任何事情，是浪费了这一个时刻啊，相反地，你应该尽可能多的利用这个时刻。
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. . . forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of the hatred, the waste of spirits.
宽恕是心灵的一种节约措施—它节省了生气的开支，仇恨的成本，和精神的浪费。
In either case, World of Warcraft has no "crafting failures" that cause you to waste raw materials, thus leaving you empty-handed.
无论如何，魔兽世界里没有“制作失败”这个设定来让你浪费了原材料而两手空空。
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?
我又问她：你觉得，在你现在所有的工作中，最没有意义的最浪费你的时间精力的工作，是什么？
This is usually the result of a few days left to Gouchi rice, resulting in considerable waste.
这样做的结果通常是剩下可以够吃好几天的饭，造成相当大的浪费。
Those who appeared to be a scum of the "waste" has helped me achieve the boring, the formation of decadent ideas, mature.
那些看似是个败类的“浪费”却帮助我实现了无聊、颓废思想的形成、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.
当它排入废水时，作为商品染料所必须具备的强着色值成的附性显然对废水处理不利。
The matter is urgent: the lack of sanitary installations and hygienic waste removal furthers the spread of disease.
最迫切的问题是：由于缺乏卫生设备和清除卫生垃圾的手段，促使了疾病的扩散。
"In the past, we didn't make it a priority to protect old buildings, or to reduce energy consumption and waste, " he says.
通过政府的支持，他认为能做到。“过去，我们没有去优先保护老建筑，或者如何减少能耗和浪费。”
Example: Stop trying to rush through three things at once--haste makes waste, you know.
切勿试图同时匆忙的做三件事情-欲速则不达，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.
身体内部急需补充养料和排出废料，所以心跳往往比平时增加2~3倍。
They have been used to sterilize things since the 19th century, but steaming municipal waste in them is a new idea.
从19世纪起人们就用压力锅灭菌，但把生活垃圾装到压力锅里去蒸却是个全新的概念。
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.
没有什么好说的…所有的对话都是在浪费能量。有些人以为他们知道我的私生活…实际他们不知道。
Water treatment industry, the company has integrated the latest film used in a variety of skilled equipment and waste water reuse project.
公司已将水处理行业的最新的膜集成技术熟练运用于各种纯水设备及废水回用工程。
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.
当人们利用电能为自己服务之前对闪电只有恐惧，人们一直认为蒸汽是一种浪费知道人们了解了可以利用它来驱动机器。
For a hunter, trying to "shoot the breeze" would be a useless waste of time and bullets.
作为一个猎人，试图去“射风”将是对时间以及子弹的浪费。
Louise Court, editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, which conducted the survey, said young women seem to think university 'a waste of time'.
这项调查是由《时尚》杂志开展的，该杂志主编路易丝康特说年轻女性似乎认为读大学是“浪费时间”。
The behaviour of this waste or broken rock is similar to that of a clean sand or gravel.
这种废石或碎石的行为与洁净的砂石或砾石相类似。
