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waste objweIstv [T]浪费，未充分利用，白费You waste a lot of water washing vegetables under running water at the sink.你在水池里让水流着洗蔬菜，浪费了大量的水。She never wastes anything--every bit of packaging is re-used in some way.她从来不浪费什么东西----每片包装材料都设法再利用。Come on, let's get started--we've wasted enough time already.喂，开始吧----我们已经浪费够多的时间了。Don't waste your money on me, love, keep it for yourself.亲爱的，别在我身上浪费钱，你自己留着吧。When I think of all those wasted years I spent with him!想想那些与他一起虚度的岁月，真让人痛心！He wasn't in when I got there, so it was a completely wasted journey.我到达时他不在，因此完全是白跑了一趟。You mean he was standing on his own at the party, and I wasn't there? Damn, another wasted opportunity!你是说晚会上他孤身一人站在那儿，而我又不在场？该死，又错过了一次机会！(Am slang) To waste someone means to kill them.废掉(某人);干掉，杀死"Waste them", he instructed and turned away as the bullets were fired.“干掉他们，”他发出命令，接着在开火声中走开了。If you say that something is wasted on someone, you mean that it is too clever or its quality is too high for them and they will not understand its true value.花得不值，糟蹋No, I'm afraid your wit was wasted on them, darling.不，亲爱的，恐怕你的风趣对他们是对牛弹琴。I'm not going to serve that good coffee to Chris and Melanie--it would be wasted on them.我可不想冲那么好的咖啡给克里斯和美兰妮喝---- 那样做不值得。If you waste your breath, you spend time and energy trying to give advice which is ignored.白费口舌Honestly, you're wasting your breath--he doesn't want to hear what anyone else has got to say.老实说，你在白费口舌----别人怎么说他也不想听。If someone does not waste words, they talk only about what is important using as few words as possible.慎言惜语，不多费口舌He explained the whole system in about 30 seconds--he doesn't waste words, does he?他只用了大约30秒钟解释整个系统----他不多费口舌，是吗？(saying)'Waste not, want not' means if you do not waste anything you will not lack it in the future.“勤俭节约，吃穿不缺。”
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