waste

noun

1. useless or profitless activity
using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly

e.g. if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste
mindless dissipation of natural resources

Synonym: wastefulnessdissipation

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

Synonym: permissive waste

3. the trait of wasting resources

e.g. a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
the wastefulness of missed opportunities

Synonym: thriftlessnesswastefulness

4. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

e.g. the barrens of central Africa
the trackless wastes of the desert

Synonym: barrenwasteland

5. any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted

e.g. they collect the waste once a week
much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers

Synonym: waste materialwaste matterwaste product

verb

1. become physically weaker

e.g. Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world

Synonym: rot

2. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

e.g. The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

Synonym: lay waste todevastatedesolateravagescourge

3. cause to grow thin or weak

e.g. The treatment emaciated him

Synonym: emaciatemacerate

4. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

e.g. After her husband died, she just pined away

Synonym: pine awaylanguish

5. spend extravagantly

e.g. waste not, want not

Synonym: consumesquanderware

6. use inefficiently or inappropriately

e.g. waste heat
waste a joke on an unappreciative audience

7. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

e.g. The mafia liquidated the informer
the double agent was neutralized

Synonym: neutralizeneutraliseliquidateknock offdo in

8. run off as waste

e.g. The water wastes back into the ocean

Synonym: run off

9. get rid of

e.g. We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer

10. spend thoughtlessly
throw away

e.g. He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends
You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree

Synonym: blowsquander

adj

1. located in a dismal or remote area
desolate

e.g. a desert island
a godforsaken wilderness crossroads
a wild stretch of land
waste places

Synonym: godforsakenwild

1. 浪费;白费
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.

e.g. 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。
e.g. I resolved not to waste money on a hotel...
我决心不住酒店，以免浪费钱。

2. 浪费;滥用;糟蹋
Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it.

e.g. The packets are measured to reduce waste...
包裹的大小经过测量以减少浪费。
e.g. I hate waste.
我讨厌浪费。

3. 废物;废料
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.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

4. 错过(机会)
If you waste an opportunity for something, you do not take advantage of it when it is available.

waste的解释

e.g. Let's not waste an opportunity to see the children...
咱们别错过了看孩子们的机会。
e.g. It was a wasted opportunity.
这是一个错失了的良机。

5. （因不被接受、理解等而）浪费（建议等）；使徒劳无益
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.

waste

e.g. 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。

6. (尤指市内或市郊的土地)荒芜的，荒废的
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.

e.g. There was a patch of waste land behind the church...
教堂的后面有一块荒地。
e.g. Yarrow can be found growing wild in fields and on waste ground.
田野里和荒地上会疯长蓍草。

7. 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.

e.g. ...the barren wastes of the Sahara.
贫瘠的撒哈拉沙漠

8. see also: wasted

9. 被浪费;被糟蹋掉
If something goes to waste, it remains unused or has to be thrown away.

waste的解释

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。”

10. 摧毁;把…变为荒地
If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.

e.g. The war has laid waste large regions of the countryside.
这场战争摧毁了大片村庄。
e.g. ...cities laid waste by the decline of traditional industries...
因传统工业衰落而没落的城市

11. 勤俭节约，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.

e.g. ...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

12. to waste your breath -> see breath
to waste no time -> see time

相关词组：waste away

1. 废料：高科技还需要废料(Waste). 说的好乱,但是其实游戏中的产业链也确实错综复杂,少了任何原料,就会导致成本过高,然后企业破产倒闭. 在加上,不同的工业类型需要不同的人群,所以作为市长,就真的需要小心翼翼,纵观全局. 哦. 对了.