waste

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【释义】：

a．❶ 荒芜的，不毛的：waste land荒地．lie waste(土地)荒芜，尚未开垦．lay waste 糟塌，蹂躏，劫掠：Beautiful our land，majestic and grand．How can we let ravening beasts again lay it waste?祖国的好山河万千气象，怎容得虎去狼来再受创伤?❷ 没有用的，废的：waste paper废纸．waste materials废旧材料．waste products废品．

－vt．❶ 浪费：waste efforts白费力气．waste words徒费唇舌．We decided to waste no time in useless discussion．我们决定不再把时间浪费在无益的讨论上．He never wasted a single cent．他从不浪费一分钱．❷ 消耗，使衰弱：The boy was wasted by disease．小孩因病消瘦了．❸ 使(土地)荒芜，破坏，蹂躏．

－vi．❶ 消耗，衰弱：waste away消瘦．❷ 浪费：Turn that tap off-the water is wasting．把水龙头关上，水都浪费了．❸ (时间)过去，消逝：Day wastes太阳下山．wast·er n．❶ 浪费的人．❷ 【口语】懒鬼，废物．

－n．❶ 浪费：It’s(a) waste of time to wait any longer．再等简直是浪费时间．go(or run)to waste 被浪费：What a pity to see all that water running to waste!看著水白白地浪费掉多可惜呀!❷ 废物，剩余物，屑：make a good use of industrial waste 很好利用工业废物．❸ 荒地，沙漠，荒芜：turn up all the wastes开垦所有的荒地．a waste of waters茫茫大海．waste·ful a．浪费的，奢侈的．