1wasted journey/trip/effort etcWASTE somethinga journey etc that does not achieve anything 白费的行程/旅行/努力等
I’m sorry you’ve had a wasted trip. Mr Newton isn’t here.
对不起,让你白跑了一趟,牛顿先生不在这里。
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wasted journey/trip/effort etc• By providing cleargoals and objectives, it minimises frustration and wasted effort. 4.• Not a wasted journey, after all, but she was anxious to carry on.• It could save you a lot of wasted effort and money.• If no-one answered soon he would have to chalk it up as a wasted trip, and Montgomery would not be amused.• As processes improve, it cuts out much of the wasted effort and rework, thus enhancingproductivity.• What a ridiculously wasted effort this was, Bill.• Pembrooke had a wasted journey to Downpatrick yesterday.• Not that it was a completely wasted trip, what with the hardwarestore right next door.
2WEAKvery thin and weak because of illness, old age etc 〔因生病或年迈而〕瘦弱的
her thin, wasted body
她瘦弱的身体
3.informalMDD very drunk or affected by drugs 烂醉的;被毒品麻醉的
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wasted• They clasped hers weakly and a smileflitted over the wastedfeatures.• Pembrooke had a wastedjourney to Downpatrick yesterday.• The government could have dealt with the problem there and then. It was a wastedopportunity.• I felt as if my education had been wasted when I couldn't get a job.• She thought back over the past four years - four wasted years married to a man who almost destroyed her.