| 释义 |
Examples:"Three Anti" campaign (anti-corruption, anti-waste, anti-bureaucracy), early PRC purge of 1951-52—sit and waste a good opportunity (idiom); to lose the chance—waste one's time by using an inappropriate method—lit. use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material—lit. honing a bull's horn; fig. waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem—look after one's parents generously, but not waste money on a lavish funeral—lit. penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem— |