英语释义

1. a sparsely settled or barren region desert

2. uncultivated land

3. a broad and empty expanse (as of water)

4. the act or an instance of wasting the state of being wasted

5. loss through breaking down of bodily tissue

6. gradual loss or decrease by use, wear, or decay

7. damaged, defective, or superfluous material produced by a manufacturing process: such as

8. material rejected during a textile manufacturing process and used usually for wiping away dirt and oil
cotton waste

9. scrap

10. an unwanted by-product of a manufacturing process, chemical laboratory, or nuclear reactor
toxic waste hazardous waste nuclear waste

11. refuse from places of human or animal habitation: such as

12. garbage, rubbish

13. excrement —often used in plural

14. sewage

15. material derived by mechanical and chemical weathering of the land and moved down sloping surfaces or carried by streams to the sea

16. to lay waste especially to damage or destroy gradually and progressively
reclaiming land wasted by strip-mining

17. to cause to shrink in physical bulk or strength emaciate, enfeeble
a body wasted by disease

18. to wear away or diminish gradually consume

19. to spend or use carelessly squander
waste valuable resources

20. to allow to be used inefficiently or become dissipated
a writer wasting her talent

21. kill also to injure severely

22. to lose weight, strength, or vitality —often used with away
was wasting away from illness

23. to become diminished in bulk or substance

24. to become consumed

25. to spend money or consume property extravagantly or improvidently

26. to accomplish nothing by speaking

27. being wild and uninhabited desolate

28. arid, empty

29. not cultivated not productive

30. being in a ruined or devastated condition

31. discarded as worthless, defective, or of no use refuse
waste material

32. excreted from or stored in inert form in a living body as a by-product of vital activity
waste products

33. serving to conduct or hold refuse material
a waste barrel specifically carrying off superfluous water
a waste drain

34. wasted sense 4

35. loss of something valuable that occurs because too much of it is being used or because it is being used in a way that is not necessary or effective

36. an action or use that results in the unnecessary loss of something valuable

37. a situation in which something valuable is not being used or is being used in a way that is not appropriate or effective

38. to use (something valuable) in a way that is not necessary or effective to use more of (something) than is necessary

39. to use (something or someone) in a way that does not produce a valuable result or effect to fail to use (something or someone) in an appropriate or effective way

40. to kill or murder (someone)

41. of, relating to, or being material that is left over or unwanted after something has been made, done, used, etc.

42. the action of spending or using carelessly or uselessly the state of being spent or used carelessly or uselessly
a waste of time

43. material left over or thrown away

44. material (as carbon dioxide in the lungs or urine in the kidneys) produced in and of no further use to the living body

45. a large area of barren land wasteland

46. to spend or use carelessly or uselessly

47. to lose or cause to lose weight, strength, or energy His muscles were wasting away from lack of use.

48. to bring to ruin

49. being wild and without people or crops barren
waste areas

50. of no further use Some waste materials can be recycled.

51. bodily waste materials excrement

52. to cause to shrink in physical bulk or strength emaciate

53. to lose weight, strength, or vitality —often used with away

54. destruction of or damage to property that is caused by the act or omission of one (as a lessee, mortgagor, or life tenant) having a lesser estate and is usually to the injury of another (as an heir, mortgagee, or remainderman) with an interest in the same property
an action for waste — ameliorating waste \ ?-​?mēl-​y?-​?rā-​ti?-​ \ waste that leads to improvement of property (as by clearing the way for rebuilding something) — called also ameliorative waste

55. waste caused by the failure of a tenant to take ordinary or proper care of the property

56. waste caused by the intentional commission of a destructive act by a tenant

57. a reduction of the value of assets (as in a trust) caused by a failure to exercise proper care or sound judgment in managing them especially a transfer of corporate assets (as through excessive executive compensation or a merger) for no legitimate business purpose or for less than what a person of ordinary sound business judgment would consider to be adequate consideration
the essence of a claim of waste of corporate assets is the diversion of corporate assets for improper or unnecessary purposes
— Michelson v. Duncan, 407 A.2d 211 (1979)

片语

stony wastes到处是石头的荒地

Solid wastes固体垃圾；固态废物

Wild Wastes荒野冒险

Adarkar Wastes阿达卡荒野

agricultural wastes农业废物

Mining wastes采矿废物

Chaos WastesThe Chaos Wastes is a fictional place in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy world setting. The Chaos Wastes are a vast warped, cold and barren wasteland to the north (and probably also the south) of the habitable areas of the world.

Seven Wastes七种浪费

mining wastes采矿废物

Processing wastes生产废料

英汉例句

• It wastes huge amounts of electricity, radiating 95% of the energy it consumes as heat rather than light.

  因为它浪费了大量的电力资源，消耗的电能中有95%是用来发热而不是发光。

• Israel wastes only about a tenth of its water, and if everyone were equally efficient, the world「s water problem would be much less pressing.

  以色列灌溉只浪费约十分之一的水，如果每个国家都同样高效用水的话，世界水问题压力将大大减少。

• The E-mail inbox should only be for priority communication, otherwise it just wastes your time.

  你的收件箱应优先为你的交流通讯服务，不然它只是在浪费你的时间。

• Remember also that each iteration through the loop wastes time, so rather than working through the same loop a number of times, try to perform all the actions in one pass through the loop.

  还要记住的是，在循环中，每次反复都是在浪费时间，因此不要多次使用相同的循环，而是要尽量在一个循环中执行所有的操作。

• All this wastes fuel and causes congestion and delays.

  这些举动都要浪费燃料，并造成拥堵和延误。

• To avoid these resource wastes depends on the details of your platform.

  避免这些资源浪费有赖于您平台的具体状况。

• Safe drinking water, basic sanitation facilities and safe disposal of infectious wastes will prevent the spread of disease and improve health conditions.

  安全的饮用水、基本的卫生设施以及安全处理感染性废物将可预防疾病传播和改善卫生条件。

• Within a few years we will be able to turn agricultural wastes into liquid fuels by splitting cellulose, the most abundant molecule in plants and trees, into simple hydrocarbons.

  在几年之内，通过分离纤维素(植物中含量最丰富的分子)并将其转化为简单的碳氢化合物，我们就可以将农业废料变成燃油了。

• The state oil company, Pemex, has promised to slash the amount of methane it wastes at its refineries by creating cogeneration energy plants.

  国家石油公司，墨西哥石油公司已承诺建立热电联产能源厂，并借此削减其炼油厂废物产生的甲烷量。

• It wastes gas, will wear out the vehicle sooner, and ends up costing you big bucks in speeding tickets and insurance premiums.

  这样做即浪费汽油，又加快汽车磨损，并且最终你会付出更多的超速罚单和保险费用。

• It causes unnecessary pressure and problems, and it wastes opportunities, time, and money.

  它引起没必要的压力和问题，也浪费了机会，时间和金钱。

• Water flows through the blood, carrying oxygen and nutrients to cells and flushing wastes out of our bodies.

  水流进血液，把氧气和营养携带给细胞，同时也把废物沖洗出我们的身体。

• Normally silicon wafers are cut from a larger piece of silicon. This wastes about half of the wafer material.

  硅晶片通常都是从一块较大的硅上裁剪而来，此方式浪费了大概一半的圆晶原料。

• I don」t want anyone using Instant Messaging in this office. It wastes too much time!

  我不想任何人在这个办公室外使用即时通信系统，太浪费时间！

• The conversion of cellulose wastes to animal feed and human food is an intriguing prospect for limiting environmental pollution and for feeding the world 'expending population.

  对于控制环境污染和供应增长着的世界人口的食品来说，将纤维素废料转化为动物饲料和人类食物有着诱人的前景。

• The extra typing required to open and close tags and escape special characters not only wastes time, but introduces more possibility for error.

  起始和结束标签以及转义特殊字符都需要额外录入，不仅浪费时间还会造成更多的错误。

• So they tend to sit on them and delay decision making, which slows the project down and wastes money.

  因此，他们总是倾向于坐等而耽误了决策，这会推迟决策，从而减慢项目的进程，浪费经费。

• Comprehensive documentation not only wastes money, it puts your project at risk by providing you with a false sense of security.

  全面的文档不仅浪费金钱，并且通过向您提供安全错觉，将您的项目置于风险之中。

• Also, for those more familiar with these ideas, what might be useful is to add your own thoughts on how these wastes manifest themselves in software environments, and how you have eliminated them.

  同样，对那些很熟悉这些观点的朋友们，不妨分享一下你们觉得浪费是怎么在软件开发中产生的，你们又是如何消除它们的？ 这会对大家都有很帮助。

• This wastes about half of the wafer material.

  这浪费了大概一半的晶圆材料。

• You know he never wastes a penny.

  你知道他从不浪费一分钱。

相似词

extravagance奢侈，浪费；过度；放肆的言行

prodigality浪费；慷慨；丰富

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