waste

英[weɪst]美[weɪst]

v.浪费，滥用，白费，错过(机会)；

n.浪费，滥用，糟蹋，废料，垃圾，荒原，沙漠；

adj.荒芜的，废弃的；

第三人称单数：wastes;

过去式：wasted;

过去分词：wasted;

现在分词：wasting;

例句

Tonnes of waste are produced every year.每年产生以吨计算的垃圾。

After reading the letter, he threw it in the waste-paper basket.他看完信之后, 把它扔进了字纸篓。

What a waste to throw it away!扔掉它多浪费!

They seized on the waste tools and went away with them.他们抓起那些报废的工具就走了。

Please pitch your waste paper in here.请把废纸丢进里面。

unprocessed liquid waste from a nuclear power station核电站排出的未经处理的废液

burning potentially hazardous medical waste焚烧有潜在危害的医疗垃圾

The lights went on day and night and it was really a waste.电灯日夜都亮着, 真是浪费。

Documents leaked to this newspaper purport to reveal that radioactive waste is being illegally dumped on the site.透露给报纸的文件声称是揭露放射性废料正被非法倾倒到此地一事。

There is a danger of serious contamination from radioactive waste.放射性废弃物有严重污染的危险。

英语六级真题

search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

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.

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.

There are huge clusters of organic waste they can feed on, said Flack.

Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

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.

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.

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.

Irrigation is the primary agricultural use of human waste in the developing world.

In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.

In most cases, the human waste is used on grain crops, which are eventually cooked, minimizing the risk of transmitting water-borne diseases.

But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.

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.

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.

It is simply a waste of time.

The Love Food, Hate Waste campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.

But more privileged students must not waste this opportunity either.

Waste Not, Want Not Feeding the 9 Billion: The Tragedy of Waste

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

As a global society, therefore, tackling food waste will help contribute towards addressing a number of key resource issues.

Governments of rapidly developing countries incorporate waste minimisation thinking into the transport infrastructure and storage facilities currently being planned, engineered and built

Elimination of waste alone can potentially provide over sixty percent more food for the growing world population.

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.

Food waste in less-developed countries happens mainly at the producers' end

Wasting food means losing not only life-supporting nutrition but also precious resources, including land, water and energy.

However, characteristics associated with modern consumer culture mean produce is often wasted through retail and customer behaviour.

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.

"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.

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.

Annually, the world generates 1.3 billion tons of solid waste.

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 .

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.

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

In addition to this, businesses would now be rewarded for successful efforts to cut food waste.

In poor, dry regions, untreated waste water is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

It could just be a waste of money.

Italy is not the only country to focus on reducing food waste.

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.

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.

The " Love Food, Hate Waste " campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.

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.

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

Yet, more and more businesses are thinking about how to reduce consumer waste.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

浪费;白费

If you waste something such as time, money, or energy, you use too much of it doing something that is not important or necessary, or is unlikely to succeed.

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N-UNCOUNT

浪费;滥用;糟蹋

Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it.

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N-UNCOUNT

废物;废料

Waste is material which has been used and is no longer wanted, for example because the valuable or useful part of it has been taken out.

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VERB

错过(机会)

If you waste an opportunity for something, you do not take advantage of it when it is available.

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VERB

（因不被接受、理解等而）浪费（建议等）；使徒劳无益

If you say that something is wasted on someone, you mean that there is no point giving it or telling it to them as they will not appreciate, understand, or pay any attention to it.

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ADJ

(尤指市内或市郊的土地)荒芜的，荒废的

Waste land is land, especially in or near a city, which is not used or looked after by anyone, and so is covered by wild plants and rubbish.

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N-PLURAL

荒漠;沙漠

Wastes are a large area of land, for example a desert, in which there are very few people, plants, or animals.

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PHRASE

被浪费;被糟蹋掉

If something goes to waste, it remains unused or has to be thrown away.

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PHRASE

摧毁;把…变为荒地

If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.

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PHRASE

勤俭节约，吃穿不缺

The expression waste not, want not means that if you do not use too much of something now you will have some left later when you need it.

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英汉词典释义

n.

浪费; 滥用

废料, 废弃物

荒地

白费，糟蹋

人烟稀少的地区，荒芜地区，荒原

vt. & vi.

浪费, 徒劳,滥用

(使)损耗, (使)消瘦

vt.

破坏, 使荒芜

白费，糟蹋

未充分利用，使…屈才

干掉，杀死，把…废了

（游戏或比赛中）大胜，把…打得落花流水

adj.

废弃的; 无用的; 荒芜的,未开垦的

英英词典释义

Noun

1. any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted;

2. useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly;

3. the trait of wasting resources;

4. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;

5. (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

Verb

1. spend thoughtlessly; throw away;

2. use inefficiently or inappropriately;

3. get rid of;

4. run off as waste;

5. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing;

6. spend extravagantly;

7. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief;

8. cause to grow thin or weak;

9. devastate or ravage;

10. waste away;

Adjective

1. disposed of as useless;

2. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate;

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；