waste
英 [we?st]
美[west]
- n. 浪費；廢物；荒地；損耗；地面風化物
- vt. 浪費；消耗；使荒蕪
- vi. 浪費；變消瘦；揮霍錢財
- adj. 廢棄的；多余的；荒蕪的
考試真題
- So, Soupios explains, it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that are beyond our control.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Yes, there is a trickle（涓涓細流）of biofuel（生物燃料）available, and more may become available, but most biofuels cause economic waste and environmental destruction.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- Don't you think it's an awful waste of time?
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
- They may regret the time they wasted.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- A study by the University of Manchester calculated the emissions of CO2—the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change—at every stage of microwaves, from manufacture to waste disposal.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Certainly, you don't want to waste your precious hours on following the developments in a disorderly fashion, and miss important deadlines, confuse interview times or forget to follow up as a result.
2018年6月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- During 26 vigorous exercise, our muscles tire as they run out of fuel and build up waste products.
2017年6月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section A
- rick Rahim, from virginia, flies helicopters for a living, and when his seven-year-old son's tooth became loose he did not waste time by tying it to a door handle.
2019年6月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- There are huge clusters of organic waste they can feed on, said Flack.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Irrigation is the primary agricultural use of human waste in the developing world.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In most cases, the human waste is used on grain crops, which are eventually cooked, minimizing the risk of transmitting water-borne diseases.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- But Pay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- It is simply a waste of time.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- The Love Food, Hate Waste campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- But more privileged students must not waste this opportunity either.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Waste Not, Want Not Feeding the 9 Billion: The Tragedy of Waste
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Furthermore, this figure does not reflect the fact that large amounts of land, energy, fertilisers and water have also been lost in the production of foodstuffs which simply end up as waste
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- As a global society, therefore, tackling food waste will help contribute towards addressing a number of key resource issues.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Governments of rapidly developing countries incorporate waste minimisation thinking into the transport infrastructure and storage facilities currently being planned, engineered and built
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Elimination of waste alone can potentially provide over sixty percent more food for the growing world population.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Poor practices in harvesting, storage and transportation have resulted in a waste of much of the food we produce and thus a waste of land and resources.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Food waste in less-developed countries happens mainly at the producers' end
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Wasting food means losing not only life-supporting nutrition but also precious resources, including land, water and energy.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- However, characteristics associated with modern consumer culture mean produce is often wasted through retail and customer behaviour.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- To increase the volume and the speed with which we move natural resources through the consumer economy to the junk pile or the waste heap.
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
- "There is a large potential for waste water agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- And now, for the lighter side of the news, Europe is setting an example for the rest of the world, when it comes to food waste.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- Annually, the world generates 1.3 billion tons of solid waste.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- By creating more awareness around your efforts to reduce waste, and by developing a culture of responsibility, repair, and reuse, you can build customer loyalty based on shared values .
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section A
- For other companies interested in reducing waste, helping the environment, and providing the sustainable lifestyles that consumers seek, here are some first steps for building a relationship with customers that focuses on recycling and restoring value to
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- In addition to this, businesses would now be rewarded for successful efforts to cut food waste.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- In poor, dry regions, untreated waste water is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- It could just be a waste of money.
2019年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Italy is not the only country to focus on reducing food waste.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- Just earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favor of legislation that would stop grocery giants from unfair trading practices that result in overproduction, thus creating waste.
2017年12月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- Reducing waste by incorporating med materials into production can cut costs and decrease the price of procurement: less to be procured from the outside and more to be re-utilized from the inside.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- The " Love Food, Hate Waste " campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.
2015年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- with fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead
2017年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- Yet, more and more businesses are thinking about how to reduce consumer waste.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- A Swiss study reported that while the weight of electronic goods represented by precious metals was relatively small in comParison to total waste, the concentration of gold and other precious metals was higher in so-called e-waste than in nature.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Always get rid of your rubbish properly and recycle waste.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Be sure to put the waste in the correct containers.
2017年高考英語全國卷2 聽力 原文
- Because soaps and other wastes can harm waterways, be careful your washing water doesn't pollute the sea, lakes and rivers.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- By doing that hundreds of dollars are wasted on classes that they would have never needed to take.
2015年高考英語湖南卷 閱讀表達 原文
- By mentioning the Swiss study, the author intends to tell us that e-waste deserves to be made good use of.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 題設
- Cell-phones are part of a growing mountain of electronic waste like computers and personal digital assistants.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Creating products out of raw materials creates much more waste material, up to 100 times more, than the material contained in the finished products.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Don't waste your time trying to find out if the receivers has read it yet.
2017年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Electronic wastes also contain many poisonous metals.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Environmental protection agency notes that most waste is dangerous in that "the production, distribution, and use of products — as well as management of the resulting waste — all result in greenhouse gas release".
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- For legal reasons, most restaurants have a policy against giving away food waste.
2019年高考英語浙江卷 完形填空 原文
- From the governments' point of view, a primary goal of laws requiring extended producer responsibility is to transfer both the cost and the physical responsibility of waste management from the government and tax-payers back to the producers.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- He directed the wasted water into shallow basins where it froze, and was stored until the spring.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- If using a portable toilet, always throw away your toilet waste at a proper waste station.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- If you're tired of wandering around the gym wasting time and becoming bored, you can attend an upbeat group fitness class that'll keep your workout on track.
2015年高考英語福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文
- In many countries the concept of extended producer responsibility is being considered or has been put in place as an incentive for reducing waste.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- In the back country, bury your toilet waste in a shallow hole away from waterways.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- It could be a waste of time.
2018年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項
- Many wastes produced in the producing process are harmful as well.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Misjudgments on the influences of new technology can lead to a waste of limited resources.
2019年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 題設
- Norphel's inspiration came from seeing the waste of water over winter, when it was not needed.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Not a single day has been wasted, though I can never tell when knowing the population of Nepal might prove useful.
2015年高考英語福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Now that Chicago's waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago river, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.
2015年高考英語湖南卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- She visits a different home each week and with the help of chef Matt Tebbutt offers top tips on how to reduce food waste.
2018年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Should you come across waste paper thrown out of a passing car, pick it up.
2018年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- The electronic waste stream is increasing three times faster than traditional garbage as a whole.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- The percentage of precious metals is heavy in e-waste.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 選項
- The responsibility of e-waste treatment should be extended from governments to producers.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 題設
- The three-month, 1, 900-mile journey from Paris to warsaw is dubanchet's way of raising awareness of food waste in Europe and throughout the world.
2019年高考英語浙江卷 完形填空 原文
- They bring with them lots of waste.
2019年高考英語全國卷I 完形填空 原文
- You are only one person, and you do not have time to waste on people who would rather cause drama or mess up with your purpose.
2016年高考英語浙江卷（6月） 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- You may feel all the training a waste of time, but I'm a hundred percent sure later you'll be grateful you did it.
2015年高考英語陜西卷 單項填空 原文
- Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent release, and more profit.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted-the trouble is, no one knows which half.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year – about 64 items per person – and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- Peretti says the Times shouldn’t waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文
- But even if you accept Friedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility( ' , CSR) policies as a waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文
- And it should: Wasted time is a drag on Americans’ economic and private lives, not to mention infuriating.
出自-2017年考研閱讀原文
- "Many jobs are boring, degrading,?unhealthy, and a waste of human potential," says John Danaher, a lecturer at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
2017年考研真題（英語二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year-about 64 items per person一and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.
2013年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- But even if you accept Friedman's premise and regard corporate social responsibility policies as a waste of shareholders' money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.
2016年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Peretti says the times shouldn't waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.
2016年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Their Olaf Street Study, a square of brick-strewn waste ground, is one of the few works here to embrace the commonplaceness that characterises most of our experience of the landscape most of the time.
2014年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ