waste

[weɪst] [weɪst]
  • 第三人称单数:wastes;
  • 过去式:wasted;
  • 过去分词:wasted;
  • 现在分词:wasting;
  • 例句
    同义词
    反义词
    同义词解析
    • 以下这些名词均包含 "废物,垃圾" 的意思
      waste普通用词,概念广泛,指任何被丢弃的东西。
      garbage主要指有机废料,包括厨房的剩菜剩饭或不能再用的食物。也可作引申用。
      rubbish普通用词,指任何成堆的、破损的、用过的或无用的东西,尤指弃掉的垃圾堆。也可作引申用。
      litter是四下乱丢物品的总称,尤指散落于地,有碍观瞻的废物。
      debris着重指分解、分裂或破坏后剩下的碎片,也指零散的普通废品。
      junk指回收的旧汽车或大型机器,也指毫无实用价值,或破烂物体,但不指垃圾。
    词组
    • go to waste
      be unused or expended to no purpose 被浪费掉
    • lay waste to (或lay something (to) waste)
      completely destroy 完全毁坏
    • waste one's breath
    • waste of space
      (informal)a person perceived as useless or incompetent (非正式)无用之人,无能之辈
    • waste not, want not
      (proverb)if you use a commodity or resource carefully and without extravagance you will never be in need (谚)不浪费,不愁缺
    • waste words
    • waste (one's) breath
      To gain or accomplish nothing by speaking. 徒费口舌:费了口舌却一无所获
    英语四级真题
    • So, Soupios explains, it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that are beyond our control.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Yes, there is a trickle(涓涓细流)of biofuel(生物燃料)available, and more may become available, but most biofuels cause economic waste and environmental destruction.
      出自-2014年6月阅读原文
    • Don't you think it's an awful waste of time?
      出自-2014年6月听力原文
    • They may regret the time they wasted.
      出自-2010年12月听力原文
    • A study by the University of Manchester calculated the emissions of CO2—the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change—at every stage of microwaves, from manufacture to waste disposal.
      2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • Certainly, you don't want to waste your precious hours on following the developments in a disorderly fashion, and miss important deadlines, confuse interview times or forget to follow up as a result.
      2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • During 26 vigorous exercise, our muscles tire as they run out of fuel and build up waste products.
      2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
    • rick Rahim, from virginia, flies helicopters for a living, and when his seven-year-old son's tooth became loose he did not waste time by tying it to a door handle.
      2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
    英语六级真题
    • search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • There are huge clusters of organic waste they can feed on, said Flack.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Irrigation is the primary agricultural use of human waste in the developing world.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • In most cases, the human waste is used on grain crops, which are eventually cooked, minimizing the risk of transmitting water-borne diseases.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • But Pay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • It is simply a waste of time.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • The Love Food, Hate Waste campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • But more privileged students must not waste this opportunity either.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • Waste Not, Want Not Feeding the 9 Billion: The Tragedy of Waste
      出自-2013年12月阅读原文
    • Furthermore, this figure does not reflect the fact that large amounts of land, energy, fertilisers and water have also been lost in the production of foodstuffs which simply end up as waste
      出自-2013年12月阅读原文
    • As a global society, therefore, tackling food waste will help contribute towards addressing a number of key resource issues.
      出自-2013年12月阅读原文
    • Governments of rapidly developing countries incorporate waste minimisation thinking into the transport infrastructure and storage facilities currently being planned, engineered and built
      出自-2013年12月阅读原文
    • Elimination of waste alone can potentially provide over sixty percent more food for the growing world population.
      出自-2013年12月阅读原文
    • Poor practices in harvesting, storage and transportation have resulted in a waste of much of the food we produce and thus a waste of land and resources.
      出自-2013年12月阅读原文
    • Food waste in less-developed countries happens mainly at the producers' end
      出自-2013年12月阅读原文
    • Wasting food means losing not only life-supporting nutrition but also precious resources, including land, water and energy.
      出自-2013年12月阅读原文
    • However, characteristics associated with modern consumer culture mean produce is often wasted through retail and customer behaviour.
      出自-2013年12月阅读原文
    • To increase the volume and the speed with which we move natural resources through the consumer economy to the junk pile or the waste heap.
      出自-2013年12月听力原文
    • "There is a large potential for waste water agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.
      2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • And now, for the lighter side of the news, Europe is setting an example for the rest of the world, when it comes to food waste.
      2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • Annually, the world generates 1.3 billion tons of solid waste.
      2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • By creating more awareness around your efforts to reduce waste, and by developing a culture of responsibility, repair, and reuse, you can build customer loyalty based on shared values .
      2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.
      2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
    • For other companies interested in reducing waste, helping the environment, and providing the sustainable lifestyles that consumers seek, here are some first steps for building a relationship with customers that focuses on recycling and restoring value to
      2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • In addition to this, businesses would now be rewarded for successful efforts to cut food waste.
      2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • In poor, dry regions, untreated waste water is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.
      2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • It could just be a waste of money.
      2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • Italy is not the only country to focus on reducing food waste.
      2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • Just earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favor of legislation that would stop grocery giants from unfair trading practices that result in overproduction, thus creating waste.
      2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • Reducing waste by incorporating med materials into production can cut costs and decrease the price of procurement: less to be procured from the outside and more to be re-utilized from the inside.
      2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • The " Love Food, Hate Waste " campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.
      2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • with fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.
      2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead
      2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
    • Yet, more and more businesses are thinking about how to reduce consumer waste.
      2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
    英汉词典释义
    英英词典释义
    • Noun
      1. any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted;
      "they collect the waste once a week""much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"
      2. useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly;
      "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste""mindless dissipation of natural resources"
      3. the trait of wasting resources;
      "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste""the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
      4. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;
      "the barrens of central Africa""the trackless wastes of the desert"
      5. (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
    • Verb
      1. spend thoughtlessly; throw away;
      "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends""You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
      2. use inefficiently or inappropriately;
      "waste heat""waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
      3. get rid of;
      "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
      4. run off as waste;
      "The water wastes back into the ocean"
      5. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing;
      "The mafia liquidated the informer""the double agent was neutralized"
      6. spend extravagantly;
      "waste not, want not"
      7. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief;
      "After her husband died, she just pined away"
      8. cause to grow thin or weak;
      "The treatment emaciated him"
      9. devastate or ravage;
      "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
      10. waste away;
      "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
    • Adjective
      1. disposed of as useless;
      "waste paper"
      2. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate;
      "a desert island""a godforsaken wilderness crossroads""a wild stretch of land""waste places"
    行业词典
    • 体育: 浪费精力;
      公路科技: 弃土;
      医学: 消耗:躯体的逐渐耗损或缩小;排泄物:机体内不能进一步使用的无用材料;消瘦phonetie w.of the breath环杓侧肌麻痹性呼气过速;
      法律: 荒地;