waste是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 浪费a. 无用的； 荒芜的n. 浪费； 废物，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance.
-- 'It all tended to a good end, my friend; it was not mere waste and ruin.
-- returned Carton, stamping his foot; 'have I sworn by no solemn vow already, to go through with this, that you waste the precious moments now?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, yes, to be sure; it does waste a lot of time," the doctor responded vaguely to some reply of Sludin's he had not caught.
-- A distant part of the estate, a tract of waste land that had lain fallow for eight years, was with the help of the clever carpenter, Fyodor Ryezunov, taken by six families of peasants on new conditions of partnership, and the peasant Shuraev took the management of all the vegetable gardens on the same terms.
-- "All that I maintain is that the labor force ought to be investigated from the point of view of natural science; that is to say, it ought to be studied, its qualities ascertained..." "But that's utter waste of time.
-- Some members, with Stremov at their head, justified their mistake on the ground that they had put faith in the commission of revision, instituted by Alexey Alexandrovitch, and maintained that the report of the commission was rubbish, and simply so much waste paper.
-- he added, without the slightest interval, as though anxious not to waste time.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That the bloodless and acquisitive Angus Duer should waste time listening to fiddlers was astounding to him.
-- Therefore, you will learn the properties of drugs and the contents of prescriptions BECAUSE I TELL YOU TO!If I did not hesitate to waste the time of the other members of this class, I would try to convince you that my statements may be accepted, not on my humble authority, but because they are the conclusions of wise men--men wiser or certainly a little older than you, my friend--through many ages.
-- It looked out on breezy, stubbly waste land reaching to distant glittering railroad tracks.
-- The commonplace room shone with peculiar light; the vigorous weeds and rough grass of the waste land were radiant under the April sun, and sparrows were cheeping.
-- Seems a shame to waste all that good space in the barn, now that you've gone and decided he mustn't have his dear little office there!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why waste time talking to him?'
-- He doesn't jeer at things, not because he hasn't the wit, but as though he hadn't time to waste on such trifles.
-- If Avdotya Romanovna does not accept it, I shall waste it in some more foolish way.
-- Was it worth while to investigate, to ascertain the facts, to waste time over anyone like Svidriga-脙炉lov?
-- Yes, upon my soul!The peasants have vodka, the educated young people, shut out from activity, waste themselves in impossible dreams and visions and are crippled by theories; Jews have sprung up and are amassing money, and all the rest give themselves up to debauchery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The caul was won, I recollect, by an oldlady with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from itthe stipulated five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopencehalfpenny short- as it took an immense time and a great waste of 10arithmetic, to endeavour without any effect to prove to her.
-- It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as Icarried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river;and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as roundas my geography-book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.
-- Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under hisarm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turneddown lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand,and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boatbuilders' yards,shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers'lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we cameout upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; whenHam said'Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!'
-- All this time I was so conscious of the waste of any promise I hadgiven, and of my being utterly neglected, that I should have beenperfectly miserable, I have no doubt, but for the old books.
-- 'Waste no words on me, for my appeal is to myhusband, and even you are nothing here.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had had many a hint from Mr. Knightley and some from her own heart, as to her deficiency but none were equal to counteract the persuasion of its being very disagreeable, a waste of time tiresome women and all the horror of being in danger of falling in with the second-rate and third-rate of Highbury, who were calling on them 186 Emmafor ever, and therefore she seldom went near them.
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