waste
waste的音标和读音:
DJ音标发音: [weist]
KK音标发音: [west]
waste的词性:
v.(动词)
waste的词性:
v.tr.(及物动词)
1. To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.
浪费:不考虑地或不仔细地使用、消费、花费或开销
2. To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble:
使衰弱:使失去能量、力量或精力;使耗尽精力、疲惫或衰弱:
Disease wasted his body.
疾病使他身体衰弱
3. To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose:
失去:没有利用或用于谋利;失去:
waste an opportunity.
错过机会
4. To destroy completely.
完全破坏
5. Slang To kill; murder.
【俚语】 杀死;谋杀
waste的词性:
v.intr.(不及物动词)
6. To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor; become weak or enfeebled:
变衰弱:损失能量、力量、重量或精力;变衰弱或变消瘦:
wasting away from an illness.
因病变虚弱
7. To pass without being put to use:
消逝:未被使用就流走:
Time is wasting.
光阴飞逝
waste的词性:
n.(名词)
8. The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted:
浪费:浪费的行为或事例或被浪费的状况:
a waste of talent; gone to waste.
天赋的浪费;浪费
9. A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.
荒芜之地:无人居住或未开垦的地方、地区或土地;沙漠或荒地
10. A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.
废墟:遭到毁坏或破坏之地区、市镇或建筑物;废墟
11. A useless or worthless byproduct, as from a manufacturing process.
废品:生产过程中等产生的无用或无价值之副产品
12. Something, such as steam, that escapes without being used.
废气:未被使用而逃逸的东西,如蒸汽
13. Garbage; trash.
垃圾;废物
14. The undigested residue of food eliminated from the body; excrement.
残余物,排泄物:体内排出的未消化的残余食物;粪便
waste的词性:
adj.(形容词)
15. Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless:
无用的,废弃的:被认为无价值或无用的或因无价值或无用的而抛弃的:
waste trimmings.
无用的碎料
16. Used as a conveyance or container for refuse:
传送废物的,盛装废物的:用作传送或盛装废物的:
a waste bin.
垃圾箱
17. Excreted from the body:
排泄的:从身体内排泄的:
waste matter.
排泄物
18. To gain or accomplish nothing by speaking.
徒费口舌:费了口舌却一无所获
waste的词源:
19. Middle English wasten
中古英语 wasten
20. from Old North French waster
源自 古法国北方方言 waster
21. from Latin v3st3re [to make empty]
源自 拉丁语 v3st3re [使空]
22. from v3stus [empty] * see eu- 2
源自 v3stus [空的] *参见 eu- 2
waste, blow, consume, dissipate, fritter, squander
23. The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to spend or expend without restraint and often to no avail”:
这些动词共有的中心意义是“无节制地且常常是无效地花费或花销”:
wasted her inheritance;
挥霍她继承的遗产;
blew a fortune on a shopping spree;
疯狂购物而浪费钱财;
time and money consumed in litigation;
消耗在诉讼中的时间和金钱;
dissipating their energies in pointless argument;
在无意义的争论中消费精力;
frittering away her entire allowance;
挥霍掉她的所有津贴;
squandered his literary talent on writing commercials. save
在写广告上浪费了他的文学天赋 save