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waste
Word family
waste1 /weɪst/ ●●● S2 W3 noun → waist
1 bad use 使用不当 [singular, uncountableU]WASTE something when something such as money or skills are not used in a way that is effective, useful, or sensible 〔金钱或技能等的〕浪费
waste of
2 go to waste WASTE somethingif something goes to waste, it is not used 被浪费掉
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go to waste• And all that effort went to waste.• If no one else wants this, I'll eat it -- I hate to see good food go to waste.• Don't let all this food go to waste.• Unfortunately, most of these useful and innovative ideas go to waste without investigation.• I still had tickets to use for this season, and now those will just go to waste.• Every part of the animal was used and nothing went to waste.• Local produce often goes to waste because people prefer to buy imported food.• However, they needn't go to waste.• Oh, no, she resolved, not twice; she wasn't going to waste another year of her life!• She wasn't going to waste her strength.• I hate to see them go to waste.• We can't let all our hard work go to waste.
3 be a waste of time/money/effort etc POINTLESSto be not worth the time, money etc that you use because there is little or no result 是浪费时间/金钱/精力等
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be a waste of time/money/effort etc• An unrealistically low offer is a waste of time.• As I said, many of these divisions of investigation will be a waste of time.• But it was a waste of time.• He may protest to the auditor that this is a waste of time.• I feel annoyed, it is a waste of time.• Marx thought that scholarly contemplation was a waste of time.• Which was a waste of time really, because all I wanted to do was join Granpa on the barrow.• While some thought that they did a good job, a substantial minority felt that they were a waste of time.
4 unwanted materials 废料 [uncountableU]RUBBISH/WASTE unwanted materials or substances that are left after you have used something 废料，废弃物 → nuclear waste, toxic waste →4 See picture on 见图 Page A6 Environmental problems 环境问题
5. a waste of space spokenUSELESS someone who has no good qualities 一无是处的人
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a waste of space• Biological media is totally unnecessary and a waste of space.• It is a waste of space.
6 LAND 土地wastes [plural] literary a large area of land where there are very few people, plants, or animals 人烟稀少的地区，荒芜地区；荒原
→ waste ground, wastelandicy/frozen/snowy etc wastes 冰原/冻原/雪原等
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COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 4: unwanted materials or substances that are left after you have used something 废料，废弃物
verbs
recycle waste 回收废弃物
How much of our household waste is recycled?
我们的家庭垃圾有多少得到了回收？
dispose of waste 处理废弃物
environmentally friendly ways to dispose of waste
对环境无害的垃圾处理方式
dump waste 倾倒垃圾
nThey were fined for illegally dumping waste.
nincinerate waste (=burn it)
For many years, solid waste was incinerated.
nreprocess waste (=treat radioactive waste so that it can be used again)
adjectivesThe plant reprocesses nuclear waste.
household/domestic waste 家庭垃圾
Newspapers and magazines make up 10% of household waste.
报纸和杂志占家庭垃圾的10%。
industrial/chemical waste 工业/化学废料
pollution caused by industrial waste
工业废料导致的污染
hazardous/toxic waste 有害/有毒废弃物
nthe illegal dumping of hazardous waste
radioactive/nuclear waste 放射性/核废物
nplans for the safe transportation of radioactive waste
norganic waste (=waste from plants, fruits, and vegetables)
Organic waste can be composted to make garden fertilizer.
human waste (=from people going to the toilet) 人体排泄物
waste + NOUNnThe prison was full of the smell of human waste.
a waste pipe 污水管，排水管
a washing machine waste pipe
洗衣机排水管
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waste• But it was also a mark of his belief that gossip was simply a waste of time.• The Commission has already proposed establishing a compensation fund for damage caused by waste.• In the absence of domestic reprocessing facilities, waste is rapidly piling up in storage.• The operation made financial and environmental sense by eliminating the need to use a hazardous waste site.• It's a good idea to recycle household waste.• the icy wastes of Antarctica• Industrial waste had leaked into the water supply.• Too much waste has been dumped into the North Sea.• The costs of waste disposal are rising all the time.• The committee will study the issue of waste in state spending.• The site is expected to begin receiving waste during the next few weeks.• Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life, and effectively found itself a conscience.• Specially engineered vaults should be constructed so that the waste could be regularly monitored and, if necessary, retrieved.• The government has announced a ban on all imports of toxic waste from abroad.
What a waste• Four people went in before Alice. What a waste of time.• They spend most of their time on the two-years-and-under crowd. What a waste.• None gave the Tories a hope of being elected with a working majority. What a waste of time and money.• There was to be more submission. What a waste of life!
waste2 ●●● S2 W3 verb [transitiveT]
1 not use sensibly 不合理地使用WASTE something to use more money, time, energy etc than is useful or sensible 滥用，浪费〔金钱、时间、精力等〕
2 not use fully 未充分使用 to not make full use of someone or something 没有充分利用
n Grammar
Waste is usually passive in this meaning.
3 be wasted on somebody STUPID/NOT SENSIBLEif something is wasted on someone, they do not understand how good or useful it is 〔某物〕浪费在某人身上〔因为此人不懂其好处〕
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be wasted on somebody• The irony of the situation was not wasted on me.• At seventy-three, her days were too short to be wasted on slumber.• Compassion could only lead to increased confusion, for it would be wasted on her.• He explained this with his usual tact, but tact was wasted on Mrs. Bidwell.• Her effort was wasted on me.• I fear your quaint down-home speech is wasted on me, my friend.• It also tends to be grown locally so that less fuel is wasted on transporting it.• It must be a proper justification which shows that your time is not likely to be wasted on a low priority.• Nor did this luxury stimulate local production: it was wasted on foreign imports which could never become productive at home.
4 waste your breath spokenPOINTLESS to say something that has no effect 浪费口水，白费唇舌
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5 waste no time (in) doing something FAST/QUICKto do something as quickly as you can because it will help you 〔因对自己有帮助而〕不失时机地做某事，赶紧做某事
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waste no time (in) doing something• Peter wasted no time finding himself another girlfriend.• Additionally, less electricity is used and the chef wastes no time waiting for the correct temperature to be reached.• Emil, the crew and I wasted no time watching.• If it demurred, the Corps might waste no time in trying to build it instead.• Lee wasted no time entering Maryland, the men being in high spirits as the bold move was made.• Ringwald wastes no time wedging herself between McGaw and his coed girlfriend, Sarah Lassez.• Shouting to Wemyss to cope with this situation, Douglas wasted no time.• The man's wife had wasted no time going through his closets picking up worn and odd pairs.• The Right was wasting no time, meanwhile.
6. waste not, want notwant not waste not spokenCAREFUL used to say that if you use what you have carefully, you will still have some of it if you need it later 勤俭节约，吃穿不缺
7. harm SB 伤害某人 American EnglishAmE informalINJUREBEAT/DEFEAT to kill someone, severely injure them, or defeat them 杀死；严重伤害；打败
8.waste away phrasal verbphr v MITHIN PERSONto gradually become thinner and weaker, usually because you are ill 〔通常因有病而〕逐渐消瘦虚弱
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waste away• If the patient does not first surrender to a fungus, bacterium or cancer, he wastes away.• Their long shins are clearly defined, yet the fatty calves have wasted away.• In the aquarium, without a fish as a companion, some anemones eventually waste away and die.• Now she was literally wasting away, and his visits were still infrequent.• There was nothing we could do -- she just wasted away and within six weeks she was dead.• His muscles were slowly wasting away because of his illness.• The muscle has the ability to recoil, but when it wastes away, the tissue hasn't.• Respiratory victims commonly wasted away to skin-covered bones.• The answer, if not excuse, is that wrestling might have wasted away without his money.• Victims lay wasting away, yet heavy in their immobility.
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waste• I wasted 40 minutes waiting for a bus this morning.• You actually hope the time and money spent on insurance will be wasted.• Bill wastes all his money on beer and cigarettes.• He had a remote manner and didn't waste an atom of energy talking to anyone on the set except Zimmer.• The school kitchen wastes an awful lot of food.• Let's not waste any more time on this.• By fencing money into line items, in other words, we waste billions of dollars every year.• I felt enough time had been wasted, but time didn't seem to mean anything to Brando.• Don't leave the light on - you're wasting electricity.• Sometimes she feels she's wasted her life.• Back in the United States, Alvin wasted no time in proposing ways of doing that on future modern dance tours.• She wasted no time in writing to me and commanding me to return home at once.• One of the men threatened to waste the bank teller if he didn't get the money.• Stop wasting time. We have to finish this by five o'clock.• I must have wasted two whole hours trying to fix this machine.• The guests with a morning to waste until the ceremony at two o'clock got under everyone's feet.• Letting the water run while you brush your teeth wastes water.
waste something on somebody/something• I can't believe you wasted $500 on a new dress!
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waste• Nor are waste dumps the only things being shaken-up.• Inefficient recovery practices have left metal-rich waste dumps which have often been levelled or used as roadstone.• The waste form and the cannister should act as barriers for 1000 years each.• Beyond the rearing buildings the waste ground was empty.• In 1875 and 1876 the Corporation purchased 3,000 acres of the open waste lands of the forest manors.• The waters off North Carolina host numerous fish, a potential biological vector for transport of waste materials.• a sewage waste pipe• a waste tank
From Longman Business Dictionary
wastewaste1 /weɪst/ noun
1[uncountableU] unwanted materials or substances that are left after a particular process
The factory’s byproduct waste is used to feed pigs.
illegal disposal ofhazardous waste
Our primary business is industrial waste collection, treatment and disposal services.
government guidelines fortoxic waste disposal
2[singular, uncountableU] things such as money or skills that should be used effectively, but are not
Try as he might, the new manager couldn’t overcome the waste and inefficiency that had plagued the plant for years.
Sales of natural gas at present prices would be awaste of companyassets.
—waste adjectiveadj [only before a noun]
the recycling of waste materials
wastewaste2 verb [transitiveT]
to use more of something, especially time or money, than you need to, or use it in a way that is not sensible
A prominent economist has suggested that the government wasted $200 billion during the oil-price boom.
We waste a lot of time and legal fees on defending our trademarks rather than tending to business.
waste1 noun →COLLOCATIONS1waste2 verb →n GRAMMAR1waste3 adjectiveadj
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