waste

高中CET4CET6考研GRE

英[weɪst]
美[weɪst]

基本释义

v.
浪费,滥用; 白费; 错过(机会)
n.
浪费,滥用; 糟蹋; 废料,垃圾; 荒原,沙漠
adj.
荒芜的; 废弃的

词性变化

实用例句

to waste time/food/energy

浪费时间 / 食物 / 能源

牛津词典

Why waste money on clothes you don't need?

为什么浪费钱买你不需要的衣服呢?

牛津词典

She wasted no time in rejecting the offer (= she rejected it immediately) .

她当即拒绝了提议。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

It was a wasted opportunity.

这白白浪费了一次机会。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

I hate unnecessary waste.

我憎恨不必要的浪费。

牛津词典

It seems such a waste to throw good food away.

把好的食物扔掉似乎太浪费了。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

What a waste of paper!

多么浪费纸啊!

牛津词典

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

真题例句

So, Soupios explains, it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that are beyond our control.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Yes, there is a trickle(涓涓细流)of biofuel(生物燃料)available, and more may become available, but most biofuels cause economic waste and environmental destruction.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Don't you think it's an awful waste of time?

出自-2014年6月听力原文

They may regret the time they wasted.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

A study by the University of Manchester calculated the emissions of CO2—the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change—at every stage of microwaves, from manufacture to waste disposal.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Certainly, you don't want to waste your precious hours on following the developments in a disorderly fashion, and miss important deadlines, confuse interview times or forget to follow up as a result.

2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

During 26 vigorous exercise, our muscles tire as they run out of fuel and build up waste products.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

rick Rahim, from virginia, flies helicopters for a living, and when his seven-year-old son's tooth became loose he did not waste time by tying it to a door handle.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

There are huge clusters of organic waste they can feed on, said Flack.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Irrigation is the primary agricultural use of human waste in the developing world.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

In most cases, the human waste is used on grain crops, which are eventually cooked, minimizing the risk of transmitting water-borne diseases.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

But Pay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It is simply a waste of time.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The Love Food, Hate Waste campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

But more privileged students must not waste this opportunity either.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Waste Not, Want Not Feeding the 9 Billion: The Tragedy of Waste

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Furthermore, this figure does not reflect the fact that large amounts of land, energy, fertilisers and water have also been lost in the production of foodstuffs which simply end up as waste

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

As a global society, therefore, tackling food waste will help contribute towards addressing a number of key resource issues.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Governments of rapidly developing countries incorporate waste minimisation thinking into the transport infrastructure and storage facilities currently being planned, engineered and built

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Elimination of waste alone can potentially provide over sixty percent more food for the growing world population.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Poor practices in harvesting, storage and transportation have resulted in a waste of much of the food we produce and thus a waste of land and resources.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Food waste in less-developed countries happens mainly at the producers' end

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Wasting food means losing not only life-supporting nutrition but also precious resources, including land, water and energy.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

However, characteristics associated with modern consumer culture mean produce is often wasted through retail and customer behaviour.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

To increase the volume and the speed with which we move natural resources through the consumer economy to the junk pile or the waste heap.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

"There is a large potential for waste water agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

And now, for the lighter side of the news, Europe is setting an example for the rest of the world, when it comes to food waste.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Annually, the world generates 1.3 billion tons of solid waste.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

By creating more awareness around your efforts to reduce waste, and by developing a culture of responsibility, repair, and reuse, you can build customer loyalty based on shared values .

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

For other companies interested in reducing waste, helping the environment, and providing the sustainable lifestyles that consumers seek, here are some first steps for building a relationship with customers that focuses on recycling and restoring value to

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

In addition to this, businesses would now be rewarded for successful efforts to cut food waste.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

In poor, dry regions, untreated waste water is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

It could just be a waste of money.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Italy is not the only country to focus on reducing food waste.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Just earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favor of legislation that would stop grocery giants from unfair trading practices that result in overproduction, thus creating waste.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Reducing waste by incorporating med materials into production can cut costs and decrease the price of procurement: less to be procured from the outside and more to be re-utilized from the inside.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The " Love Food, Hate Waste " campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

with fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead

2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Yet, more and more businesses are thinking about how to reduce consumer waste.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

A Swiss study reported that while the weight of electronic goods represented by precious metals was relatively small in comParison to total waste, the concentration of gold and other precious metals was higher in so-called e-waste than in nature.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Always get rid of your rubbish properly and recycle waste.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Be sure to put the waste in the correct containers.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

Because soaps and other wastes can harm waterways, be careful your washing water doesn't pollute the sea, lakes and rivers.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

By doing that hundreds of dollars are wasted on classes that they would have never needed to take.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读表达 原文

By mentioning the Swiss study, the author intends to tell us that e-waste deserves to be made good use of.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 题设

Cell-phones are part of a growing mountain of electronic waste like computers and personal digital assistants.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Creating products out of raw materials creates much more waste material, up to 100 times more, than the material contained in the finished products.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Don't waste your time trying to find out if the receivers has read it yet.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Electronic wastes also contain many poisonous metals.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Environmental protection agency notes that most waste is dangerous in that "the production, distribution, and use of products — as well as management of the resulting waste — all result in greenhouse gas release".

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

For legal reasons, most restaurants have a policy against giving away food waste.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

From the governments' point of view, a primary goal of laws requiring extended producer responsibility is to transfer both the cost and the physical responsibility of waste management from the government and tax-payers back to the producers.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

He directed the wasted water into shallow basins where it froze, and was stored until the spring.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

If using a portable toilet, always throw away your toilet waste at a proper waste station.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

If you're tired of wandering around the gym wasting time and becoming bored, you can attend an upbeat group fitness class that'll keep your workout on track.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

In many countries the concept of extended producer responsibility is being considered or has been put in place as an incentive for reducing waste.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

In the back country, bury your toilet waste in a shallow hole away from waterways.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

It could be a waste of time.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Many wastes produced in the producing process are harmful as well.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Misjudgments on the influences of new technology can lead to a waste of limited resources.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

Norphel's inspiration came from seeing the waste of water over winter, when it was not needed.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Not a single day has been wasted, though I can never tell when knowing the population of Nepal might prove useful.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Now that Chicago's waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago river, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

She visits a different home each week and with the help of chef Matt Tebbutt offers top tips on how to reduce food waste.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Should you come across waste paper thrown out of a passing car, pick it up.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

The electronic waste stream is increasing three times faster than traditional garbage as a whole.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The percentage of precious metals is heavy in e-waste.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

The responsibility of e-waste treatment should be extended from governments to producers.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 题设

The three-month, 1, 900-mile journey from Paris to warsaw is dubanchet's way of raising awareness of food waste in Europe and throughout the world.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

They bring with them lots of waste.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

You are only one person, and you do not have time to waste on people who would rather cause drama or mess up with your purpose.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

You may feel all the training a waste of time, but I'm a hundred percent sure later you'll be grateful you did it.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 单项填空 原文

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent release, and more profit.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted-the trouble is, no one knows which half.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year – about 64 items per person – and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

Peretti says the Times shouldn’t waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

But even if you accept Friedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility policies as a waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

And it should: Wasted time is a drag on Americans’ economic and private lives, not to mention infuriating.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

"Many jobs are boring, degrading, unhealthy, and a waste of human potential," says John Danaher, a lecturer at the National University of Ireland in Galway.

2017年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year-about 64 items per person一and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But even if you accept Friedman's premise and regard corporate social responsibility policies as a waste of shareholders' money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.

2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Peretti says the times shouldn't waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.

2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Their Olaf Street Study, a square of brick-strewn waste ground, is one of the few works here to embrace the commonplaceness that characterises most of our experience of the landscape most of the time.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted;

    "they collect the waste once a week"

    "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"

  • 2. useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly;

    "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"

    "mindless dissipation of natural resources"

  • 3. the trait of wasting resources;

    "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"

    "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"

  • 4. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;

    "the barrens of central Africa"

    "the trackless wastes of the desert"

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

Verb
  • 1. spend thoughtlessly; throw away;

    "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"

    "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

  • 2. use inefficiently or inappropriately;

    "waste heat"

    "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"

  • 3. get rid of;

    "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"

  • 4. run off as waste;

    "The water wastes back into the ocean"

  • 5. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing;

    "The mafia liquidated the informer"

    "the double agent was neutralized"

  • 6. spend extravagantly;

    "waste not, want not"

  • 7. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief;

    "After her husband died, she just pined away"

  • 8. cause to grow thin or weak;

    "The treatment emaciated him"

  • 9. devastate or ravage;

    "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

  • 10. waste away;

    "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

Adjective
  • 1. disposed of as useless;

    "waste paper"

  • 2. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate;

    "a desert island"

    "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"

    "a wild stretch of land"

    "waste places"

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。

同义词

vt.浪费;花费;耗尽

usespendexhaustconsumeupsquander

反义词

vt. & vi.浪费

save

最新英语单词

行业英语