waste

詳細解釋：

waste

v.（動詞）
wast.ed,wast.ing,wastes
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.
浪費：不考慮地或不仔細地使用、消費、花費或開銷
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；使耗盡精力、疲憊或衰弱：
例句：
Disease wasted his body.
疾病使他身體衰弱

To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose:
失去：沒有利用或用於謀利；失去：
例句：
waste an opportunity.
錯過機會

To destroy completely.
完全破壞
Slang To kill; murder.
【俚語】 殺死；謀殺
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor; become weak or enfeebled:
變衰弱：損失能量、力量、重量或精力；變衰弱或變消瘦：
例句：
wasting away from an illness.
因病變虛弱

To pass without being put to use:
消逝：未被使用就流走：
例句：
Time is wasting.
光陰飛逝

n.（名詞）
The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted:
浪費：浪費的行為或事例或被浪費的狀況：
例句：
a waste of talent; gone to waste.
天賦的浪費；浪費

A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.
荒蕪之地：無人居住或未開墾的地方、地區或土地；沙漠或荒地
A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.
廢墟：遭到毀壞或破壞之地區、市鎮或建築物；廢墟

A useless or worthless byproduct, as from a manufacturing process.
廢品：生產過程中等產生的無用或無價值之副產品
Something, such as steam, that escapes without being used.
廢氣：未被使用而逃逸的東西，如蒸汽
Garbage; trash.
垃圾；廢物
The undigested residue of food eliminated from the body; excrement.
殘餘物，排泄物：體內排出的未消化的殘餘食物；糞便
adj.（形容詞）
Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless:
無用的，廢棄的：被認為無價值或無用的或因無價值或無用的而拋棄的：
例句：
waste trimmings.
無用的碎料

Used as a conveyance or container for refuse:
傳送廢物的，盛裝廢物的：用作傳送或盛裝廢物的：
例句：
a waste bin.
垃圾箱

Excreted from the body:
排泄的：從身體內排泄的：
例句：
waste matter.
排泄物

<習慣用語>waste (one`s) breath
To gain or accomplish nothing by speaking.
徒費口舌：費了口舌卻一無所獲
來源：
Middle English wasten
中古英文 wasten
from Old North French waster
源自 古法國北方方言 waster
from Latin v3st3re [to make empty]
源自 拉丁語 v3st3re [使空]
from v3stus [empty] * see eu- 2
源自 v3stus [空的] *參見 eu- 2

<參考辭彙><同義詞>waste,blow,consume,dissipate,fritter,squanderThe central meaning shared by these verbs is .to spend or expend without restraint and often to no avail.:
這些動詞共有的中心意義是.無節制地且常常是無效地花費或花銷.：
例句：
wasted her inheritance;
揮霍她繼承的遺產；

例句：
blew a fortune on a shopping spree;
瘋狂購物而浪費錢財；

例句：
time and money consumed in litigation;
消耗在訴訟中的時間和金錢；

例句：
dissipating their energies in pointless argument;
在無意義的爭論中消費精力；

例句：
frittering away her entire allowance;
揮霍掉她的所有津貼；

例句：
squandered his literary talent on writing commercials. save
在寫廣告上浪費了他的文學天賦 save