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waste something
Don't waste food.
不要浪费食物。
浪费；挥霍；白费
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
浪费；挥霍；白费
to use money, time, or resources carelessly or without good effect
Don't waste food.
不要浪费食物。
To devastate; to destroy.
To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
waste
Base
原形
wastes
3rd person
第三人称单数
wasting
-ing
现在分词
wasted
Past
过去式
wasted
Past participle
过去分词
He always wastes food.
他总是浪费食物。
She is wasting time watching TV.
她正在浪费时间看电视。
They wasted a lot of money yesterday.
他们昨天浪费了很多钱。
Don't waste your money on things you don't need.
别把钱浪费在你不需要的东西上。
He wasted the whole afternoon playing video games.
他把整个下午都浪费在玩电子游戏上。
She wasted a good opportunity by arriving late.
她因为迟到而白白错过了一个好机会。
Don't waste food.
不要浪费食物。
He wasted his allowance on candy.
他把零花钱浪费在糖果上。
She wasted an hour waiting for the bus.
她浪费了一个小时等公交。
Not this
Don't waste time to play games.
Use this
Don't waste time playing games.
动词 waste 后接 time/money 等名词时，其后应使用动名词 (-ing) 表示浪费在做某事上，而不是不定式。
Not this
He wasted a lot of money for video games.
Use this
He wasted a lot of money on video games.
表示在某方面浪费钱时，应使用介词 on 而不是 for。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
浪费时间
Don't waste time worrying about things you can't change.
别把时间浪费在无法改变的事情上。
浪费钱
Don't waste money on things you don't need.
别把钱浪费在你不需要的东西上。
浪费（错过）一个机会
She wasted a golden opportunity to study abroad.
她错过了出国留学的宝贵机会。
浪费精力；白费力气
You're just wasting energy arguing with him.
你跟他争论只是白费力气。
浪费资源
The government was criticized for wasting resources on unnecessary projects.
政府因把资源浪费在无谓的项目上而受到批评。
（因病或饥饿）日渐消瘦，衰弱下去
He wasted away after months of illness.
他病了好几个月后，人日渐消瘦。
不浪费，不匮乏
Waste not, want not, so I always keep the leftovers for tomorrow.
不浪费，不匮乏，所以我会把剩菜留到明天。
日渐消瘦；逐渐衰弱
During his long illness, he slowly wasted away.
在长期患病期间，他慢慢变得骨瘦如柴。
白费口舌
Don't waste your breath arguing with him; he never listens.
别跟他白费口舌了，他从来不听的。
我曾虚度光阴，如今时光也来虚度我。
In this line from Shakespeare's Richard II, the fallen king reflects on how he wasted his reign.
在莎士比亚《理查二世》的这句台词中，被废黜的国王反思自己如何虚度了统治时光。
你享受的消磨时光，并非虚度。
This popular saying, often attributed to Marthe Troly-Curtin, suggests that time you enjoy wasting is not wasted at all.
这句常被归于马瑟·特罗利-柯廷的流行谚语指出，你享受地浪费掉的时间并非全然虚度。
Use waste naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
想象水龙头一直开着，水白白流走，这就是 waste（浪费）。
语域：neutral 常见场景：everyday advice or criticism、business and resource management、personal time management 在此义项（浪费、挥霍）中，waste 属中性常用词，口语和书面语都自然，通常多用于日常对话、职场讨论或正式报告；语气常带批评或惋惜。
及物动词，后接宾语，常用搭配 waste time/money on sth.
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