waste

导读：waste音标
英 [weɪst] 美 [west]
waste基本释义
n.废物；浪费；荒地v.浪费；滥用；消耗adj.荒芜的；无用的；浪费的
waste用法及例句
n.(名词)废物，废料，垃圾，弃物浪费，白费滥用荒地，荒野损

waste音标

英 [weɪst]

美 [west]

waste基本释义

n.废物；浪费；荒地

v.浪费；滥用；消耗

adj.荒芜的；无用的；浪费的

waste用法及例句

n.(名词)

废物，废料，垃圾，弃物

浪费，白费

滥用

荒地，荒野

损耗，消耗

糟蹋

人烟稀少的地区，荒芜地区，荒原

无用的人，干什么都不行的人，饭桶

一大片

毁坏

v.(动词)

（被）浪费，未被充分利用

糟蹋

滥用

（使）衰弱，（使）消瘦

白费（唇舌），徒劳

使…屈才

干掉，把…废了

杀害，杀死，谋杀

把…打得落花流水，大胜

消耗，损耗

毁坏，破坏，蹂躏

使荒芜

变衰弱（常与away连用）

流逝

adj.(形容词)

废弃的，无用的，丢弃的，废物的

荒芜的，荒废的，不毛的，荒凉的

未开垦的

盛放废物的

排除废物的

多余的，剩余的

身体内排泄的

浪费的

n.(名词)

[U] 浪费; 滥用; 未充分利用 loss, wrong use, or lack of full use

[U] 废料,废弃物 used, damaged, or unwanted matter

[C] 荒地; 未开垦的土地 an unused or useless stretch of land; a wide empty lonely stretch of water or land

v.(动词)

vi. & vt. 浪费,徒劳 make no use of, make poor use of; use badly or wrongly, use too much of, use more than is needed; use without a good purpose, fail to get value or benefit from

vi. & vt. (使)损耗,(使)消瘦 become or cause to become weak and thin slowly; lose strength by degree

vt. 破坏,使荒芜 make land, building etc. waste; make useless by damage

adj.(形容词)

[A] 废弃的,无用的 got rid of as worthless, damaged, or of no use

荒芜的 empty; ruined or destroyed

noun

1. useless or profitless activityusing or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly

e.g. if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a wastemindless dissipation of natural resources

Synonym: wastefulnessdissipation

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

Synonym: permissive waste

3. the trait of wasting resources

e.g. a life characterized by thriftlessness and wastethe wastefulness of missed opportunities

Synonym: thriftlessnesswastefulness

4. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

e.g. the barrens of central Africathe trackless wastes of the desert

Synonym: barrenwasteland

5. any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted

e.g. they collect the waste once a weekmuch of the waste material is carried off in the sewers

Synonym: waste materialwaste matterwaste product

verb

1. become physically weaker

e.g. Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world

Synonym: rot

2. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

e.g. The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

Synonym: lay waste todevastatedesolateravagescourge

3. cause to grow thin or weak

e.g. The treatment emaciated him

Synonym: emaciatemacerate

4. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

e.g. After her husband died, she just pined away

Synonym: pine awaylanguish

5. spend extravagantly

e.g. waste not, want not

Synonym: consumesquanderware

6. use inefficiently or inappropriately

e.g. waste heatwaste a joke on an unappreciative audience

7. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

e.g. The mafia liquidated the informerthe double agent was neutralized

Synonym: neutralizeneutraliseliquidateknock offdo in

8. run off as waste

e.g. The water wastes back into the ocean

Synonym: run off

9. get rid of

e.g. We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer

10. spend thoughtlesslythrow away

e.g. He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friendsYou squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree

Synonym: blowsquander

adj

1. located in a dismal or remote areadesolate

e.g. a desert islanda godforsaken wilderness crossroadsa wild stretch of landwaste places

Synonym: godforsakenwild

1. 浪费;白费If you waste something such as time, money, or energy, you use too much of it doing something that is not important or necessary, or is unlikely to succeed.

e.g. There could be many reasons and he was not going to waste time speculating on them...原因可能有很多，他不打算浪费时间对此妄加猜测。e.g. I resolved not to waste money on a hotel...我决心不住酒店，以免浪费钱。

2. 浪费;滥用;糟蹋Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it.

e.g. The packets are measured to reduce waste...包裹的大小经过测量以减少浪费。e.g. I hate waste.我讨厌浪费。

3. 废物;废料Waste is material which has been used and is no longer wanted, for example because the valuable or useful part of it has been taken out.

e.g. Congress passed a law that regulates the disposal of waste...国会通过了一项规范废弃物处理的法律。e.g. Up to 10 million tonnes of toxic wastes are produced every year in the UK.英国每年会产生多达1,000万吨的有*废弃物。

4. 错过(机会)If you waste an opportunity for something, you do not take advantage of it when it is available.

waste的解释

e.g. Let's not waste an opportunity to see the children...咱们别错过了看孩子们的机会。e.g. It was a wasted opportunity.这是一个错失了的良机。

5. （因不被接受、理解等而）浪费（建议等）；使徒劳无益If you say that something is wasted on someone, you mean that there is no point giving it or telling it to them as they will not appreciate, understand, or pay any attention to it.

waste

e.g. All the well-meant, sincere advice is largely wasted on him.他对所有善意、真挚的建议基本都无动于衷。

6. (尤指市内或市郊的土地)荒芜的，荒废的Waste land is land, especially in or near a city, which is not used or looked after by anyone, and so is covered by wild plants and rubbish.

e.g. There was a patch of waste land behind the church...教堂的后面有一块荒地。e.g. Yarrow can be found growing wild in fields and on waste ground.田野里和荒地上会疯长蓍草。

7. 荒漠;沙漠Wastes are a large area of land, for example a desert, in which there are very few people, plants, or animals.

e.g. ...the barren wastes of the Sahara.贫瘠的撒哈拉沙漠

8. see also: wasted

9. 被浪费;被糟蹋掉If something goes to waste, it remains unused or has to be thrown away.

waste的解释

e.g. So much of his enormous effort and talent will go to waste if we are forced to drop one hour of the film...如果我们被迫把电影缩短1小时，那么他付出的许多努力就会白费，他的才华也将大半被淹没。e.g. Mexican cookery is economical, she says. Nothing goes to waste.“墨西哥的烹调注重俭省，”她说，“任何东西都不会浪费。”

10. 摧毁;把…变为荒地If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.

e.g. The war has laid waste large regions of the countryside.这场战争摧毁了大片村庄。e.g. ...cities laid waste by the decline of traditional industries...因传统工业衰落而没落的城市

11. 勤俭节约，吃穿不缺The expression waste not, want not means that if you do not use too much of something now you will have some left later when you need it.

e.g. ...a nation that prides itself on its 'waste not, want not' thrift and its environmental conscience.为其“俭以防匮”的节俭作风和环保意识而自豪的国家

12. to waste your breath -> see breathto waste no time -> see time