Waste

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect.

(noun.) any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; 'they collect the waste once a week'; 'much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers'.

(verb.) become physically weaker; 'Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world'.

(verb.) cause to grow thin or weak; 'The treatment emaciated him'.

(verb.) use inefficiently or inappropriately; 'waste heat'; 'waste a joke on an unappreciative audience'.

(verb.) run off as waste; 'The water wastes back into the ocean'.

(verb.) get rid of; 'We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer'.

(verb.) spend thoughtlessly; throw away; 'He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends'; 'You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree'.

录入:伦纳德

• Sell her her waste, please, and give her good measure if you can make up your mind to do the liberal thing for once. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Here is a waste of land that might afford subsistence for so many of the human species. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• In waste and uninclosed lands, any person who discovers a tin mine may mark out its limits to a certain extent, which is called bounding a mine. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Here you have been abroad nearly six months, and done nothing but waste time and money and disappoint your friends. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• If she is, it's because you wouldn't waste your time on an old hulk like me. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Clear waste, sir, of a thousand dollars, just for want of management,--there's where 't is. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• If he has any expectations it is due to the fact that I have never wasted money, and I do not propose to begin to do so now. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Pleasure not known beforehand is half wasted; to anticipate it is to double it. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Her half-brother had now ample means again, but what with debts and what with new madness wasted them most fearfully again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The man was beset by friends who told him he was mad to continue the chase, and that his undoubted talents in other lines were being wasted. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• And when Miss Caroline entered she was encountered in the middle of the chamber by a tall, thin, wasted figure, who took both her hands. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Look upon this damosel; note her wasted form, her halting step, her bloomless cheeks where youth should blush and happiness exult in smiles! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Yet in some ways I feel that yesterday has not been wasted. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Devilish cold,' he added pettishly, 'standing at that door, wasting one's time with such seedy vagabonds! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Not once; but I assure you she is wasting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Her thinness seemed to be the effect of some wasting fire within her, which found a vent in her gaunt eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• That's the worst of it--people say she isn't wasting her time! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Our chance of catching the thieves may depend on our not wasting one unnecessary minute. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The canal extends nearly due south to Suez on the Red Sea, a distance of about 100 miles, through barren wastes of sand and an occasional lake. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He that wastes idly a groat's worth of his time per day, one day with another, wastes the privilege of using one hundred pounds each day. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• And a society like ours wastes such good material in producing its little patch of purple! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Rosamond had that victorious obstinacy which never wastes its energy in impetuous resistance. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• His emotions responded to the glories of tropica l vegetation in the Brazilian forests, and to the sublimity of Patagonian wastes and the forest-cl ad hills of Tierra del Fuego. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Further, water assists in the removal of the daily bodily wastes, and thus rids the system of foul and poisonous substances. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But while the careless disposal of wastes may not spoil the drinking water (in the well to be described), other laws of health demand a thoughtful disposal of wastes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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