英语释义

1. a worthless person or thing

片语

a total waste of time纯粹浪费时间

a great waste of time浪费时间

a fearful waste of time时间浪费得很厉害

A Wonderful Waste of Time消磨好时光

a willful waste of time故意浪费时间

A horrendous waste of time时间上巨大的浪费

a criminal waste of talent平白浪费天份

a scandalous waste of money金钱的浪费触目惊心

英汉例句

• That would be odd, though, since it would be a waste of valuable carbon.

  尽管这十分奇怪，因为这样是一种对有用的碳的浪费。

• Or give you unhelpful heap of negative thoughts on personal development and that it「s all just common sense, a waste of time and that in real life it doesn」t work like in the books.

  或者，他们会给你一些关于个人发展的无用的、消极的想法，这些都是很正常的，只是在浪费时间，毕竟现实生活和书里的描述不同。

• They want their mobile device or at least a magazine, because standing and waiting is either a waste of time or something they「re not used to doing without feeling self-conscious.

  他们需要他们的手机，或者至少是一本杂志。因为无论是站着还是坐着都是在浪费时间，都是他们不习惯的，会让他们感觉不自然。

• Many consider education and professions a waste of time.

  许多人认为教育和职业培训是浪费时间。

• Furthermore, it」s a waste of time to try selling to people who simply don「t need what you」re offering.

  此外，尝试推销商品给那些一看就知道不需要你的产品的人是在浪费你的时间。

• Fighting is such a waste of time.

  斗争是如此浪费时间的一件事。

• You「ve sent the reader a message that ultimately says, 「This site is a waste of your time.」

  读者们所接收的最终信息，是：「来这个网页是浪费我的时间。」不要传达这个信息。

• Seriously, I」ve totally given up on trying to define it, since whatever definition you come up with, there「s simply no agreement to be found, and ultimately it ends up being a waste of time.

  说真的，我已经彻底放弃了去定义它，因为无论你给它什么样的定义，都不会找到一个一致认可的定义，最终的结果无非是浪费时间。

• What a waste of precious time and energy!

  这是一件浪费时间浪费精力的事情。

• I am often asked if the effort invested in pandemic preparedness is a waste of resources.

  常有人问我，对大流行防范投入的人力物力是不是在浪费资源。

• If you」re sure you bombed your interview, then you may think any follow-up effort is a waste of your time-or just another opportunity to mess up.

  但假如你确定你把面试搞砸了，那么你会觉得任何一进步的努力都是浪费时间-或只是另一个出丑的机会而已。

• It probably is a waste of money to study carbon storage from burning coal.

  不过花钱去研究煤炭燃烧后的碳储存，那就是一种浪费了。

• But don「t let anyone tell you they are a waste of money... just make sure you know what you」re getting and use it right.

  只是不要让人们觉得买它就是在浪费钱，确定你知道如何更好的使用它来得到你想要得到的。

• Pursuing such goals is a waste of energy and resources.

  追求这类目标是对精力和资源的一种浪费。

• If you think 「the Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor」 sounds like a waste of time, don「t waste yours.

  如果你觉得「木乃伊：龙帝之墓」听起来是那种浪费时间的片子，就不要浪费好了。

• For boys, it would be helpful to explain that, at least for some problems, some of the time, talking about their problems is not a waste of time.

  对于男孩而言，要通过解释让他们明白至少在某些时候、谈论某些自身问题并非浪费时间，这种解释益处良多。

• He thinks the climate summit in Copenhagen is a waste of time.

  他认为哥本哈根气候峰会是在浪费时间。

• Repackaging loans identified, priced and managed by the Banks is, therefore, a waste of their talents.

  因此说，银行对已经确认、定价并管理的贷款进行重新包装，是一种智力的浪费。

• Supplements have been getting a bad rap recently, with even the familiar multivitamin now looking like a waste of money - or worse.

  补充品最近声名狼藉，即使是我们所熟悉的多种维生素，现在看起来也是在浪费金钱-或者更糟。

• Until recently the general attitude toward daydreaming remained hostile. Daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time. Or it was considered an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties.

  不久前人们对白日做梦一般还是持批评的态度，认为它浪费时间，是逃避现实生活及其责任的一种不健康的倾向。

• Wasn」t that a waste of his talents?

  但这岂不是对他才能的一种浪费。

• Otherwise, I would have ended up with multiple instances of the same image being created, which is nothing more than a waste of system resources.

  否则，结果很有可能是正在创建的同一个图像却具有多个实例，这是对系统资源的一种浪费。

• The important thing is to understand why it was not a waste of time, something I think we all eventually figure out for ourselves.

  最重要的是我认为我们每个人都必须亲自想明白，为什么学习这些知识不是一种对时间的浪费。

• This failure is easy to understand, but I「m not sure I really want to 「fix」 it — the method I」m not testing is trivial, and adding tests for trivial methods can be a waste of effort.

  这个失败很容易理解，但我不确定是不是真的要「修正」它——我没有测试的这个方法非常微不足道，为这么微不足道的方法添加测试有点浪费精力。

• This will result in a waste of resources and could even affront the very individuals we are working to support.

  这将带来资源的浪费，甚至可能会冒犯我们正努力援助的那些人。

• When not in session, they are a waste of space, and they can be hard for witnesses and families to get to.

  在没有案子的时候，它空在那里就是一种浪费，一般的游客和家庭也不愿意进去。

• The Palestinians said that until settlement expansion stops, resuming peace talks with Israel would be a waste of time.

  巴勒斯坦人说，除非以色列停止扩建定居点，否则恢复跟以色列的和平谈判就是浪费时间。

• I consider it a waste of time arguing about it.

  我认为辩论这事是很浪费时间的。

• There began an interminable series of slow, traffic-snarled bus trips, a waste of hours and hours, during which there was nothing to do but run each successive failure through my head.

  接着是坐一程又一程的蜗牛一般的、鸣着喇叭的公车，一个小时一个小时的浪费掉了，在此期间，除了在脑袋里细数我的失败，我无事可做。