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VERB
浪費;白費
If you waste something such as time, money, or energy, you use too much of it doing something that is not important or necessary, or is unlikely to succeed.
例句
There could be many reasons and he was not going to waste time speculating on them...
原因可能有很多，他不打算浪費時間對此妄加猜測。
I resolved not to waste money on a hotel...
我決心不住酒店，以免浪費錢。
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N-UNCOUNT
浪費;濫用;糟蹋
Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it.
例句
The packets are measured to reduce waste...
包裹的大小經過測量以減少浪費。
I hate waste.
我討厭浪費。
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N-UNCOUNT
廢物;廢料
Waste is material which has been used and is no longer wanted, for example because the valuable or useful part of it has been taken out.
例句
Congress passed a law that regulates the disposal of waste...
國會通過了一項規范廢棄物處理的法律。
Up to 10 million tonnes of toxic wastes are produced every year in the UK.
英國每年會產生多達1,000萬噸的有毒廢棄物。
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VERB
錯過(機會)
If you waste an opportunity for something, you do not take advantage of it when it is available.
例句
Let's not waste an opportunity to see the children...
咱們別錯過了看孩子們的機會。
It was a wasted opportunity.
這是一個錯失了的良機。
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VERB
（因不被接受、理解等而）浪費（建議等）；使徒勞無益
If you say that something is wasted on someone, you mean that there is no point giving it or telling it to them as they will not appreciate, understand, or pay any attention to it.
例句
All the well-meant, sincere advice is largely wasted on him.
他對所有善意、真摯的建議基本都無動于衷。
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ADJ
(尤指市內或市郊的土地)荒蕪的，荒廢的
Waste land is land, especially in or near a city, which is not used or looked after by anyone, and so is covered by wild plants and rubbish.
例句
There was a patch of waste land behind the church...
教堂的后面有一塊荒地。
Yarrow can be found growing wild in fields and on waste ground.
田野里和荒地上會瘋長蓍草。
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N-PLURAL
荒漠;沙漠
Wastes are a large area of land, for example a desert, in which there are very few people, plants, or animals.
例句
...the barren wastes of the Sahara.
貧瘠的撒哈拉沙漠
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PHRASE
被浪費;被糟蹋掉
If something goes to waste, it remains unused or has to be thrown away.
例句
So much of his enormous effort and talent will go to waste if we are forced to drop one hour of the film...
如果我們被迫把電影縮短1小時，那么他付出的許多努力就會白費，他的才華也將大半被淹沒。
Mexican cookery is economical, she says. Nothing goes to waste.
“墨西哥的烹調注重儉省，”她說，“任何東西都不會浪費。”
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PHRASE
摧毀;把…變為荒地
If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.
例句
The war has laid waste large regions of the countryside.
這場戰爭摧毀了大片村莊。
...cities laid waste by the decline of traditional industries...
因傳統工業衰落而沒落的城市
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PHRASE
勤儉節約，吃穿不缺
The expression waste not, want not means that if you do not use too much of something now you will have some left later when you need it.
例句
...a nation that prides itself on its 'waste not, want not' thrift and its environmental conscience.
為其“儉以防匱”的節儉作風和環保意識而自豪的國家