wasteful

英[ˈweɪstfl]美[ˈwestfəl]

adj.浪费的，挥霍的；

副词：wastefully;

名词：wastefulness;

例句

Duties have been reassigned to avoid wasteful duplication of work.为避免重复劳动浪费资源，任务已经重新分派。

It is a shame to be so wasteful.这样浪费太可耻了。

a wasteful use of resources浪费资源

He became apoplectic about wasteful government spending.他对于*府的浪费开销变得怒不可遏。

A man can never thrive who had a wasteful wife.妻子浪费无度,丈夫不会出头出自：英语谚语

Rural senators today ensure that wasteful, trade - distorting, ally - enraging farm subsidies will never die.今天,来自农业州的参议员确保浪费 、 贸易扭曲 、 令盟友愤怒的农业补贴永不会死.

This is wasteful because it deprives the soil of valuable nutrients.这是一种浪费,因为它夺走了土壤的有价值的养料.

When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And Broils root out the work of masonry.当着残暴的战争把铜像推翻, 或内讧把城池荡成一片废墟.

The whole process is wasteful and inefficient.整个程序既浪费又效率低。

This practice is frowned upon as being wasteful.这种行为被认为是浪费而不获认可。

英语六级真题

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental ( ' , 渐进的) gains.

These should discourage retailers from wasteful practices that lead to the rejection of food on the basis of cosmetic characteristics, and losses in the home due to excessive purchasing by consumers.

In the same way, a significant reduction of wasteful agricultural subsidies could also lower the deficit.

As consumers, we are very wasteful.

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental gains.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADJ-GRADED

浪费的;耗费的;挥霍的

Action that is wasteful uses too much of something valuable such as time, money, or energy.

例句

英汉词典释义

adj.

浪费的;挥霍的;耗费的

adv.

浪费地;挥霍地;耗费地

n.

浪费;挥霍;耗费

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. inefficient in use of time and effort and materials;

2. tending to squander and waste

3. laying waste;