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If waste is useless, then to waste is to fritter away. Don't waste time putting your waste paper in the waste basket, just chuck it in the recycling bin.
As a noun, waste, meaning “desolate regions” stems from the Old English westen, meaning “a desert, wilderness.” Later, it came to imply a “useless activity,” and even later than that, “refuse matter,” or “trash.” As a verb, waste “devastate, ruin,” comes from the Latin vastare, “to lay waste.” It later adopted the sense of “spend or consume uselessly.” It can also mean “to kill.” The poet E. E. Cummings said, “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
实用短语
常用短语
单词用法
waste：普通用词，概念广泛，指任何被丢弃的东西。
garbage：主要指有机废料，包括厨房的剩菜剩饭或不能再用的食物。也可作引申用。
rubbish：普通用词，指任何成堆的、破损的、用过的或无用的东西，尤指弃掉的垃圾堆。也可作引申用。
litter：是四下乱丢物品的总称，尤指散落于地，有碍观瞻的废物。
debris：着重指分解、分裂或破坏后剩下的碎片，也指零散的普通废品。
junk：指回收的旧汽车或大型机器，也指毫无实用价值，或破烂物体，但不指垃圾。
solid waste固体废物，固态废物；固体废料，固体垃圾
waste gas废气
a waste of浪费…
同义词辨析
同义词
反义词
save / accumulate / spare / thrift
同根词
词根：waste
adj.wasted浪费的
wasteful浪费的，不经济的；奢侈的
wasting浪费的；造成浪费的
adv.wastefully浪费地；挥霍地
n.wasting浪费
waster[环境] 废品；挥霍者，浪费者
wastefulness浪费；挥霍无度
v.wasted浪费（waste的过去式）