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waste + noun
waste 作为形容词常修饰 land, ground, area 等名词。
They cleared the waste land for farming.
他们清理了荒地用于耕种。
废弃的；无用的；多余的
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废弃的；无用的；多余的
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
They cleared the waste land for farming.
他们清理了荒地用于耕种。
多指物品或材料因无用、损坏或过剩而被丢弃
Barren; desert; empty.
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
Superfluous; needless.
Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Please sort the waste paper from the plastic before you put it in the bin.
请把废纸和塑料分类，再放入垃圾箱。
The city collects waste glass and metal every Tuesday morning.
城市每周二早上收集废弃的玻璃和金属。
We should reduce waste packaging in our daily shopping.
我们日常购物时应该减少多余的包装。
waste 作为形容词常修饰 land, ground, area 等名词。
They cleared the waste land for farming.
他们清理了荒地用于耕种。
be waste 表示处于荒废状态，主语通常为土地或区域。
After the fire, the entire forest is waste.
火灾后，整片森林一片荒芜。
lie waste 表示荒芜状态，lie 为系动词。
The fields lie waste, overgrown with weeds.
田地荒芜，长满了杂草。
Not this
This is a wasteful land.
Use this
This is a waste land.
“Wasteful” 意为浪费的，用于描述人或行为，不表示土地荒芜；应用形容词 “waste” 表示未被使用的、荒凉的。
Not this
They walked across the wasted field.
Use this
They walked across the waste field.
“Wasted” 是过去分词，常表示被毁坏或消耗的；而形容词 “waste” 专指土地荒芜、未经开垦，两者含义不同。
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荒地；废地
Nothing grows on this waste land.
这片荒地上什么也不长。
废弃的空地
The children played on a piece of waste ground near the factory.
孩子们在工厂附近的一片废弃空地上玩耍。
废纸
Please put the waste paper in the recycling bin.
请把废纸放进回收箱。
废料；废品
The factory recycles its waste material.
这家工厂回收利用其废料。
废水
The plant treats waste water before releasing it into the river.
工厂在将废水排入河流之前对其进行处理。
废品；废弃物
Carbon dioxide is a waste product of respiration.
二氧化碳是呼吸作用产生的废物。
不浪费，则不匮乏
My grandmother always told me, 'Waste not, want not.'
我祖母总是告诉我：‘不浪费，则不匮乏。’
被浪费，白白浪费
Don't let this food go to waste—put it in the fridge.
别让这些食物白白浪费，把它们放进冰箱。
彻底摧毁，使成废墟
The fire laid waste to the entire forest.
大火摧毁了整片森林。
荒原
In T. S. Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land', the word 'waste' describes a barren, empty land.
在 T·S·艾略特的诗《荒原》中，“waste”一词描述一片荒芜、空旷的土地。
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记忆：waste的本义是“浪费”，被浪费掉的东西即“废弃无用的”；荒地也是一片被浪费的土地，荒凉空旷。
语域：mixed 常见场景：describing land or terrain、technical or industrial descriptions、formal or literary writing 作形容词时，waste 的语域随义项变化：表示“荒芜的/空旷的”（如 waste land）比较常见于文学或正式描写；表示“废弃的/多余的”（如 waste materials）多用于技术、工业等书面场合。日常口语中较少单独用作形容词，通常更常用名词或动词形式。
常用于固定短语 'lay waste to' 表示彻底破坏；作表语时表示荒芜的。
Dictionary facts from DICTIONARY_API_DEV, ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.