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IELTS BNC: 1624 COCA: 1986

waste

Word family 
waste1 /weɪst/ ●●● S2 W3 noun → waist
1  bad use 使用不當 [singular, uncountableU]WASTE something when something such as money or skills are not used in a way that is effective, useful, or sensible 〔金錢或技能等的〕浪費
waste of
Being unemployed is such a waste of your talents.
失業簡直是浪費了你的才能。
Many believe that state aid is a waste of taxpayers’ money.
許多人認爲政府援助是浪費納稅人的錢。
What a waste of all that good work!
真是白辛苦了！
excessive waste in state spending
政府支出方面的過度浪費
2  go to waste WASTE somethingif something goes to waste, it is not used 被浪費掉
Don’t let all this food go to waste.
别讓這些食物白白浪費掉。
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go to waste• And all that effort went to waste.• If no one else wants this, I'll eat it -- I hate to see good food go to waste.• Don't let all this food go to waste.• Unfortunately, most of these useful and innovative ideas go to waste without investigation.• I still had tickets to use for this season, and now those will just go to waste.• Every part of the animal was used and nothing went to waste.• Local produce often goes to waste because people prefer to buy imported food.• However, they needn't go to waste.• Oh, no, she resolved, not twice; she wasn't going to waste another year of her life!• She wasn't going to waste her strength.• I hate to see them go to waste.• We can't let all our hard work go to waste.
3  be a waste of time/money/effort etc POINTLESSto be not worth the time, money etc that you use because there is little or no result 是浪費時間/金錢/精力等
We should never have gone – it was a total waste of time.
我們真不該去——那純粹是浪費時間。
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be a waste of time/money/effort etc• An unrealistically low offer is a waste of time.• As I said, many of these divisions of investigation will be a waste of time.• But it was a waste of time.• He may protest to the auditor that this is a waste of time.• I feel annoyed, it is a waste of time.• Marx thought that scholarly contemplation was a waste of time.• Which was a waste of time really, because all I wanted to do was join Granpa on the barrow.• While some thought that they did a good job, a substantial minority felt that they were a waste of time.
4  unwanted materials 廢料 [uncountableU]RUBBISH/WASTE unwanted materials or substances that are left after you have used something 廢料，廢棄物
The emphasis now is on recycling waste.
目前的重點是廢棄物的再利用。
→ nuclear waste, toxic waste
5. a waste of space spokenUSELESS someone who has no good qualities 一無是處的人
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a waste of space• Biological media is totally unnecessary and a waste of space.• It is a waste of space.
6  LAND 土地wastes [plural] literary a large area of land where there are very few people, plants, or animals 人煙稀少的地區，荒蕪地區；荒原
wastes of
the icy wastes of Antarctica
南極洲冰原
icy/frozen/snowy etc wastes 冰原/凍原/雪原等
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icy/frozen/snowy etc wastes• The remaining one-third includes frozen wastes, deserts, mines and towns.• They were building railways and digging roads in the frozen wastes of Siberia.
→ waste ground, wasteland
 COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 4: unwanted materials or substances that are left after you have used something 廢料，廢棄物
verbs
recycle waste 回收廢棄物
How much of our household waste is recycled?
我們的家庭垃圾有多少得到了回收？
dispose of waste 處理廢棄物
environmentally friendly ways to dispose of waste
對環境無害的垃圾處理方式
dump waste 傾倒垃圾
nThey were fined for illegally dumping waste.
nincinerate waste (=burn it)
For many years, solid waste was incinerated.
nreprocess waste (=treat radioactive waste so that it can be used again)
The plant reprocesses nuclear waste.
adjectives
household/domestic waste 家庭垃圾
Newspapers and magazines make up 10% of household waste.
報紙和雜志佔家庭垃圾的10%。
industrial/chemical waste 工業/化學廢料
pollution caused by industrial waste
工業廢料導致的污染
hazardous/toxic waste 有害/有毒廢棄物
nthe illegal dumping of hazardous waste
radioactive/nuclear waste 放射性/核廢物
nplans for the safe transportation of radioactive waste
norganic waste (=waste from plants, fruits, and vegetables)
Organic waste can be composted to make garden fertilizer.
human waste (=from people going to the toilet) 人體排洩物
nThe prison was full of the smell of human waste.
waste + NOUN
a waste pipe 污水管，排水管
a washing machine waste pipe
洗衣機排水管
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waste• But it was also a mark of his belief that gossip was simply a waste of time.• The Commission has already proposed establishing a compensation fund for damage caused by waste.• In the absence of domestic reprocessing facilities, waste is rapidly piling up in storage.• The operation made financial and environmental sense by eliminating the need to use a hazardous waste site.• It's a good idea to recycle household waste.• the icy wastes of Antarctica• Industrial waste had leaked into the water supply.• Too much waste has been dumped into the North Sea.• The costs of waste disposal are rising all the time.• The committee will study the issue of waste in state spending.• The site is expected to begin receiving waste during the next few weeks.• Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life, and effectively found itself a conscience.• Specially engineered vaults should be constructed so that the waste could be regularly monitored and, if necessary, retrieved.• The government has announced a ban on all imports of toxic waste from abroad.
What a waste• Four people went in before Alice. What a waste of time.• They spend most of their time on the two-years-and-under crowd. What a waste.• None gave the Tories a hope of being elected with a working majority. What a waste of time and money.• There was to be more submission. What a waste of life!
waste2 ●●● S2 W3 verb [transitiveT]
1  not use sensibly 不合理地使用WASTE something to use more money, time, energy etc than is useful or sensible 濫用，浪費〔金錢、時間、精力等〕
Leaving the heating on all the time wastes electricity.
讓暖氣整天開着是浪費電力。
waste something on somebody/something
Don’t waste your money on that junk!
别把錢浪費在那種垃圾上！
2  not use fully 未充分使用 to not make full use of someone or something 沒有充分利用
Hannah is wasted in that clerical job.
漢娜幹那種文書工作是大材小用。
His talents were being wasted as a lawyer.
他有那樣的才華，當律師真是浪費。
n Grammar
Waste is usually passive in this meaning.
3  be wasted on somebody STUPID/NOT SENSIBLEif something is wasted on someone, they do not understand how good or useful it is 〔某物〕浪費在某人身上〔因爲此人不懂其好處〕
Her good advice was wasted on the children.
她對孩子們的規勸是白費口舌了。
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be wasted on somebody• The irony of the situation was not wasted on me.• At seventy-three, her days were too short to be wasted on slumber.• Compassion could only lead to increased confusion, for it would be wasted on her.• He explained this with his usual tact, but tact was wasted on Mrs. Bidwell.• Her effort was wasted on me.• I fear your quaint down-home speech is wasted on me, my friend.• It also tends to be grown locally so that less fuel is wasted on transporting it.• It must be a proper justification which shows that your time is not likely to be wasted on a low priority.• Nor did this luxury stimulate local production: it was wasted on foreign imports which could never become productive at home.
4  waste your breath spokenPOINTLESS to say something that has no effect 浪費口水，白費唇舌
Don’t try to reason with Paul – you’re wasting your breath.
不要跟保羅講理了——你是白費唇舌。
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waste your breath• Besides, something told her she'd be wasting her breath.• I ain going waste my breath.• I figure why waste my breath.• You know it and so do I. So don't waste your breath!• Was there any point in even wasting her breath trying to convince him?
5  waste no time (in) doing something FAST/QUICKto do something as quickly as you can because it will help you 〔因對自己有幫助而〕不失時機地做某事，趕緊做某事
He wasted no time in introducing himself.
他趕忙自我介紹。
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waste no time (in) doing something• Peter wasted no time finding himself another girlfriend.• Additionally, less electricity is used and the chef wastes no time waiting for the correct temperature to be reached.• Emil, the crew and I wasted no time watching.• If it demurred, the Corps might waste no time in trying to build it instead.• Lee wasted no time entering Maryland, the men being in high spirits as the bold move was made.• Ringwald wastes no time wedging herself between McGaw and his coed girlfriend, Sarah Lassez.• Shouting to Wemyss to cope with this situation, Douglas wasted no time.• The man's wife had wasted no time going through his closets picking up worn and odd pairs.• The Right was wasting no time, meanwhile.
6. waste not, want notwant not waste not spokenCAREFUL used to say that if you use what you have carefully, you will still have some of it if you need it later 勤儉節約，吃穿不缺
7. harm SB 傷害某人 American EnglishAmE informalINJUREBEAT/DEFEAT to kill someone, severely injure them, or defeat them 殺死；嚴重傷害；打敗
8.waste away phrasal verbphr v MITHIN PERSONto gradually become thinner and weaker, usually because you are ill 〔通常因有病而〕逐漸消瘦虛弱
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waste away• If the patient does not first surrender to a fungus, bacterium or cancer, he wastes away.• Their long shins are clearly defined, yet the fatty calves have wasted away.• In the aquarium, without a fish as a companion, some anemones eventually waste away and die.• Now she was literally wasting away, and his visits were still infrequent.• There was nothing we could do -- she just wasted away and within six weeks she was dead.• His muscles were slowly wasting away because of his illness.• The muscle has the ability to recoil, but when it wastes away, the tissue hasn't.• Respiratory victims commonly wasted away to skin-covered bones.• The answer, if not excuse, is that wrestling might have wasted away without his money.• Victims lay wasting away, yet heavy in their immobility.
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waste• I wasted 40 minutes waiting for a bus this morning.• You actually hope the time and money spent on insurance will be wasted.• Bill wastes all his money on beer and cigarettes.• He had a remote manner and didn't waste an atom of energy talking to anyone on the set except Zimmer.• The school kitchen wastes an awful lot of food.• Let's not waste any more time on this.• By fencing money into line items, in other words, we waste billions of dollars every year.• I felt enough time had been wasted, but time didn't seem to mean anything to Brando.• Don't leave the light on - you're wasting electricity.• Sometimes she feels she's wasted her life.• Back in the United States, Alvin wasted no time in proposing ways of doing that on future modern dance tours.• She wasted no time in writing to me and commanding me to return home at once.• One of the men threatened to waste the bank teller if he didn't get the money.• Stop wasting time. We have to finish this by five o'clock.• I must have wasted two whole hours trying to fix this machine.• The guests with a morning to waste until the ceremony at two o'clock got under everyone's feet.• Letting the water run while you brush your teeth wastes water.
waste something on somebody/something• I can't believe you wasted $500 on a new dress!
Related topics: Geography
waste3 ●●○ W3 adjectiveadj [only before noun]
1. SGwaste materials, substances etc are unwanted because the good part of them has been removed 〔材料、物質等〕廢棄的，無用的
2. SGAREAwaste land is empty or not looked after by anyone 〔土地〕荒蕪的，荒廢的
→ wasteland, → lay waste at lay2(11)
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waste• Nor are waste dumps the only things being shaken-up.• Inefficient recovery practices have left metal-rich waste dumps which have often been levelled or used as roadstone.• The waste form and the cannister should act as barriers for 1000 years each.• Beyond the rearing buildings the waste ground was empty.• In 1875 and 1876 the Corporation purchased 3,000 acres of the open waste lands of the forest manors.• The waters off North Carolina host numerous fish, a potential biological vector for transport of waste materials.• a sewage waste pipe• a waste tank
From Longman Business Dictionary
wastewaste1 /weɪst/ noun
1[uncountableU] unwanted materials or substances that are left after a particular process
The factory’s byproduct waste is used to feed pigs.
illegal disposal ofhazardous waste
Our primary business is industrial waste collection, treatment and disposal services.
government guidelines fortoxic waste disposal
2[singular, uncountableU] things such as money or skills that should be used effectively, but are not
Try as he might, the new manager couldn’t overcome the waste and inefficiency that had plagued the plant for years.
Sales of natural gas at present prices would be awaste of companyassets.
—waste adjectiveadj [only before a noun]
the recycling of waste materials
wastewaste2 verb [transitiveT]
to use more of something, especially time or money, than you need to, or use it in a way that is not sensible
A prominent economist has suggested that the government wasted $200 billion during the oil-price boom.
We waste a lot of time and legal fees on defending our trademarks rather than tending to business.
Origin waste1
1. (1200-1300) → WASTE2
2. (1100-1200) Old North French wast, from wast (adjective); → WASTE3
 waste2
(1200-1300) Old North French waster, from Latin vastare; → DEVASTATE
 waste3
(1200-1300) Old North French wast, from Latin vastus; → VAST

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