单词详解

1. vt.

A. 浪费，滥用，未充分利用 [(+on)] (spend thoughtlessly, throw away)

Don’t waste your time and energy on trifles. 别把你的时间和精力浪费在无聊的小事上。

I don’t like to waste your money. 我不愿浪费你的钱。

Don’t waste such a golden opportunity. 不要糟踏这样一个千载难逢的机会。

B. 消耗，使消瘦，使衰弱 (lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief)

Her body was wasted by long illness. 她久病体弱。

2. vi.

A. 被浪费 (use inefficiently or inappropriately)

All his efforts were wasted. 他的所有努力都白费了。

B. 消瘦 [(+away)] (cause to grow thin or weak)

She is wasting away from an illness. 她因病消瘦了。

3. n.

A. [U] [S] 浪费，滥用 [(+of)] (useless or profitless activity, using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly)

It is a waste of time to wait any longer. 在等下去是白费时间。

 The same work every day is a waste of her talents.

做这样千篇一律的工作，是浪费了她的才能。

B. [U] 废 (弃) 物，废料，排泄物 (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)

A lot of poisonous waste from the chemical works polluted the river.

化工厂的许多有毒废料污染这条河。

4. adj.

废弃的，无用的 ( located in a dismal or remote area, desolate)

Throw out that waste paper. 把废纸扔掉

相关词组

1. a waste of ……的浪费

It’s only a waste of time to speak to her. 和她说话纯粹是浪费时间。

2. nuclear waste 核废弃物

The nuclear waste will pollute the environment very much. 核废弃物会对环境污染很大。

3. waste money on 在……上浪费钱

He wasted money on playing computer games. 他在玩电脑游戏上浪费了很多钱。

4. waste one’s breath 白费口舌

Persuading her to give up her idea just wasted my breath.

劝说她放弃她的想法只是在浪费口舌。

5. waste time on sth. / in doing sth. 在某事/物上浪费时间

Don’t waste time on trifles. 不要将时间浪费在这些琐事上。

相关单词

过去式：wasted

过去分词：wasted

现在分词：wasting

第三人称单数：wastes