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waste

英 [weɪst] 美[west]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

n. 浪费；废物；荒地；损耗；地面风化物
vt. 浪费；消耗；使荒芜
vi. 浪费；变消瘦；挥霍钱财
adj. 废弃的；多余的；荒芜的

实用场景例句

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。

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。

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。

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！

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。

I resolved not to waste money on a hotel...: 我决心不住酒店，以免浪费钱。

The packets are measured to reduce waste...: 包裹的大小经过测量以减少浪费。

I hate waste.: 我讨厌浪费。

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。

Up to 10 million tonnes of toxic wastes are produced every year in the UK.: 英国每年会产生多达1,000万吨的有毒废弃物。

Let's not waste an opportunity to see the children...: 咱们别错过了看孩子们的机会。

It was a wasted opportunity.: 这是一个错失了的良机。

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。

There was a patch of waste land behind the church...: 教堂的后面有一块荒地。

Yarrow can be found growing wild in fields and on waste ground.: 田野里和荒地上会疯长蓍草。

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

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。

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。”

The war has laid waste large regions of the countryside.: 这场战争摧毁了大片村庄。

...cities laid waste by the decline of traditional industries...: 因传统工业衰落而没落的城市

...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

同义词辨析

waste, garbage, rubbish, litter, debris, junk

这些名词均含"废物，垃圾"之意。

waste：普通用词，概念广泛，指任何被丢弃的东西。

garbage：主要指有机废料，包括厨房的剩菜剩饭或不能再用的食物。也可作引申用。

rubbish：普通用词，指任何成堆的、破损的、用过的或无用的东西，尤指弃掉的垃圾堆。也可作引申用。

litter：是四下乱丢物品的总称，尤指散落于地，有碍观瞻的废物。

debris：着重指分解、分裂或破坏后剩下的碎片，也指零散的普通废品。

junk：指回收的旧汽车或大型机器，也指毫无实用价值，或破烂物体，但不指垃圾。