| 单词 | waste |
| 释义 | waste I. 1. a. (1) < this waste of mud; water, and monotonous vegetation — Wilfred Thesiger > < the trackless wastes of the pine hills — Adria Langley > (2) < a sandy waste of several square miles that was once forest and later farm lands — American Guide Series: Michigan > (3) < a quiet countryside was converted by the ironmasters into one of the ugliest wastes ever created by man — L.D.Stamp > (4) < so was his life become a hopeless waste — B.A.Williams > b. c. (1) < outposts staring over the seething Atlantic wastes — Marjory S. Douglas > (2) < all those who have died throughout the long wastes of time — J.S.Bradford > < one o'clock, and then another long, long waste of quarters — Rumer Godden > d. 2. a. < this present era of efficiency ought … to avoid the waste of ability — C.H.Grandgent > < waste of time > < waste of money > b. < thought it was an economic waste to have a car sitting in the garage all day long — M.M.Musselman > 3. a. b. c. chiefly dialect 4. a. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) b. (1) < no receptacle for waste may be washed in a pond, lake, or stream — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > (2) wastes plural < the proper disposal, or lack of disposal here, of human wastes — Orient Book World > < barnyard wastes > (3) c. < as rock waste continues to stream away from every part of the area in turn, valleys are widened — Arthur Holmes > 5. a. b. < give edge unto the swords that make such waste — Shakespeare > 6. obsolete < have the expense and waste of his revenues — Shakespeare > 7. 8. archaic Synonyms: see refuse • - go to waste II. transitive verb 1. < shown how the Union preserved the States from wasting and destroying one another — Van Wyck Brooks > 2. < the emaciated and battered figure of that poet whom desire, disease, and prison wasted — F.J.Mather > 3. a. < the broad gray summit is barren and desolate-looking … wasted by ages of gnawing storms — John Muir †1914 > < the aboriginal population had been wasted by the epidemics of the eighteenth century — W.C.Massey > b. archaic < companions that do converse and waste the time together — Shakespeare > c. < the dirty water is drained off from the top and wasted into a sewer — V.M.Ehlers & E.W.Steel > 4. a. < waste money > < waste time > < waste effort > < waste sympathy > b. < an actor wasted on an inattentive audience > < a pun wasted on his students > < full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air — Thomas Gray > c. < heat wasted in the process > d. < waste a golden opportunity > 5. obsolete < have wasted myself out of my means — Shakespeare > intransitive verb 1. a. < women and children … wasting away in the mills — V.L.Parrington > b. of a jockey < had little difficulty in making eight stone, but … took rides at 7 st. 4 lb. and under, and wasted hard to make it — Richard Lane > 2. a. < still remaining, but gradually wasting from the surface rock on which they were carved — American Guide Series: Oregon > b. < allowed our natural riches to waste with startling rapidity — U.S. Code > 3. < time wastes too fast — Laurence Sterne > 4. < waste not, want not > 5. < allowing water to waste when it reaches a certain elevation — Water & Sewage Control Engineering > < wastes back into the sea through short rivers — Roscoe Fleming > Synonyms: < what a tremendous amount of energy is wasted in hauling, lifting, and spinning unnecessarily heavy masses of metal — Waldemar Kaempffert > < the windows were thickly frosted over, so that … art in dressing them was quite wasted — Arnold Bennett > squander applies to silly, reckless, profuse expenditure likely to impoverish < squanders in reckless gambling and debauchery — C.C.Walcutt > < squandering your early enthusiasm in futile attempt to excite the world about your ideas and your plans — W.J.Reilly > dissipate may suggest extravagant scattering or dispersion through indulgence or folly to the point of exhaustion < doubtless his great and varied mental powers were dissipated by desultory labors, and by his inability to concentrate on a single task — Merle Curti > < unable to weather the storms of Reconstruction, its endowment dissipated in worthless securities, the institution was closed — American Guide Series: North Carolina > fritter implies gradual dissipation of resources by piecemeal expenditure by bits, usually on foolish trifles < fritter away a fortune on petty vices > < the cathode was slowly frittered away, its substance becoming encrusted on the walls and other parts of the tube — K.K.Darrow > consume may refer to any wasteful devouring or destroying < tuberculosis that consumed her at the age of thirty-four — Harry Levin > < for some cities are desolated by ruin, others consumed by the sword — G.G.Coulton > Synonym: see in addition ravage. • - waste one - waste one's breath III. 1. a. (1) < waste places > (2) < the waste realms of nonexistence — L.P.Smith > b. < a small piece of waste land which the farmers could readily spare — R.P.T.Coffin > 2. < arrives at a large city, burnt and waste — Publ's Mod. Lang. Association of American > < a bombing that laid waste the city > < for lack of manpower, large areas lie waste > 3. archaic < a large waste barn, which had survived the farmhouse to which it had once belonged — Sir Walter Scott > 4. a. < waste water > < waste material > b. < waste steam > < waste power > c. < waste matter > 5. < a waste cock > < a waste drain > < a waste spout > IV. |
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