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| 詞匯 | waste |
| 釋義 | waste /weist; west/ adj 1 (of land) that is not or cannot be used; no longer of use; barren: (指土地)未或無法利用的; 廢棄的; 荒蒸的: ~ land, not occupied or used for any purpose. (未作任何利用的)荒燕地; 未利用地。 '~land /-laend; -zlaend/ n a barren, desolate or unused land. 荒燕、人跡罕至或未利用的土地; 荒地。 b land ravaged by war, etc: 為戰(zhàn)爭等所破壞之地; 瘡痍之地: Vietnam reduced to ~-land by bombing and shelling. 越南因轟炸及炮擊而變成瘡痍之地。 c (fig) life, society, looked upon as culturally and spiritually barren. (喻)文化和精神上貧乏的生活或社會。 / ay ~, destroy the crops in, ravage (eg territory occupied in war). 損毀…上面的作物; 蹂蹣(戰(zhàn)時占領(lǐng)的土地等)。 2 useless; thrown away because not wanted: 無用的; 拋棄的; 廢棄的: ~-paper; 廢紙; ~ products, unwanted after a manufacturing process. 制造遍程剩下的無用副產(chǎn)品; 廢物。 vt, vi 1 [VP6A, 14, 2A] ~ sth (on sth), make no use of; use without a good purpose; use more of (sth) than is necessary: 條用; 浪費; 徒耗: ~ one's time and money on paying bribes; 將時間和金錢浪費于賄賂; ~ one's words/ breath, talk without making any impression (on sb), 徒費唇舌。 All his efforts were ~d, had no result, 他的全部努力都白會了。 W ~ not. want not, (prov) If you do not ~ your money, etc you are unlikely to be in need. (諺)不浪費則不虞匱乏。 2 [VP6A] make (land) waste; ravage. 使(土地) 荒蕪; 損毀; 蹂順。 3 [VP6A, 2A, C] (cause to) lose strength by degrees: (使)逐漸失去力量; 耗損; 衰弱: He's wasting away. 他漸漸消瘦了。 Consumption is a wasting disease. 肺房是一種耗損體力的疾病。 His body was ~d by long illness. 他的身體因 ■ 匆病而衰弱了。 4 [VP2A] be ~d: 被浪費或耗損: Turn that tap off— the water is wasting. 把那水龍頭關(guān)起來,水給浪費了。 n 1 [U] wasting or being ~d: 浪甄; 徒耗: There's too much ~ in this house. U— 家人太浪費了?!?s a ~ of time to wait any longer. 再等下去是白費時間。 What a ~ of energy! 這多么浪費精力! go/run to ~, be ~ d: 被浪費; 未被利用: What a pity to see all that water running to ~! eg instead of being used for generating electric current. 眼看著那些水白白浪費掉,多可惜呀! (如未用來發(fā)電等。) 2 [U] ~ material; refuse. 廢物; 殘物。 '~-basket/-bin (US) (美) ,,'paper-basket (GB) (英) nn basket or other container for scraps of paper, etc. 字紙箕。 '■—-pipe n pipe for carrying off used or superfluous water. 孫水管。 3 [U] area of ~ land: 荒地; 原野; 沙漠: the ~s of the Sahara; 撒哈也沙漠; dreary scene: 湊涼的景色: a ~ of waters. 一片汪洋的凄涼景色。 ~r n (colloq) wastrel. (俗) 無用的人; 飯桶; 浪子; 浪費者。 ~fu1 /-fl; -fs!/ adj causing using more than is needed: 使無用的; 浪費的:~加 I habits/ processes; 浪費的習(xí)慣 (方法); ~ful expenditure. 浪費的開支。~ /-fall; -fall/ adv |
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