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waste AHD[wāst] D.J.[weɪst]K.K.[west]v.（动词）wast.ed, wast.ing, wastes v.tr.（及物动词）- To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.浪费：不考虑地或不仔细地使用、消费、花费或开销
- To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble:使衰弱：使失去能量、力量或精力；使耗尽精力、疲惫或衰弱：Disease wasted his body.疾病使他身体衰弱
- To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose:失去：没有利用或用于谋利；失去：waste an opportunity.错过机会
- To destroy completely.完全破坏
- Slang To kill; murder.【俚语】 杀死；谋杀
v.intr.（不及物动词）- To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor; become weak or enfeebled:变衰弱：损失能量、力量、重量或精力；变衰弱或变消瘦：wasting away from an illness.因病变虚弱
- To pass without being put to use:消逝：未被使用就流走：Time is wasting.光阴飞逝
n.（名词）- The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted:浪费：浪费的行为或事例或被浪费的状况：a waste of talent; gone to waste.天赋的浪费；浪费
- A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.荒芜之地：无人居住或未开垦的地方、地区或土地；沙漠或荒地
- A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.废墟：遭到毁坏或破坏之地区、市镇或建筑物；废墟
- A useless or worthless byproduct, as from a manufacturing process.废品：生产过程中等产生的无用或无价值之副产品
- Something, such as steam, that escapes without being used.废气：未被使用而逃逸的东西，如蒸汽
- Garbage; trash.垃圾；废物
- The undigested residue of food eliminated from the body; excrement.残余物，排泄物：体内排出的未消化的残余食物；粪便
adj.（形容词）- Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless:无用的，废弃的：被认为无价值或无用的或因无价值或无用的而抛弃的：waste trimmings.无用的碎料
- Used as a conveyance or container for refuse:传送废物的，盛装废物的：用作传送或盛装废物的：a waste bin.垃圾箱
- Excreted from the body:排泄的：从身体内排泄的：waste matter.排泄物
waste (one's) breath - To gain or accomplish nothing by speaking.徒费口舌：费了口舌却一无所获
- Middle English wasten 中古英语 wasten
- from Old North French waster 源自 古法国北方方言 waster
- from Latin vāstāre [to make empty] 源自 拉丁语 vāstāre [使空]
- from vāstus [empty] * see eu- 2源自 vāstus [空的] * 参见 eu- 2
waste, blow, consume, dissipate, fritter, squander- The central meaning shared by these verbs is "to spend or expend without restraint and often to no avail": 这些动词共有的中心意义是“无节制地且常常是无效地花费或花销”： wasted her inheritance;挥霍她继承的遗产；blew a fortune on a shopping spree;疯狂购物而浪费钱财；time and money consumed in litigation;消耗在诉讼中的时间和金钱；dissipating their energies in pointless argument;在无意义的争论中消费精力；frittering away her entire allowance;挥霍掉她的所有津贴；squandered his literary talent on writing commercials. save 在写广告上浪费了他的文学天赋 save
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