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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such talent as hers must not be suf-fered to remain unknown. I dare say you have heard those charming lines of the poet, 'Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 'And waste its fragrance on the desert air.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dog took no notice, for he had arrived at an age at which all superfluous barking was cynically avoided as a waste of breath in fact, he never barked even at the sheep except to order, when it was done with an absolutely neutral countenance, as a sort of Commination-service, which, though offensive, had to be gone through once now and then to frighten the flock for their own good.
-- "But there was one man who had more sense than to waste his time upon me."
-- Yet at this very time, within the same parish, a greater waste had been going on, uncomplained of and disregarded.
-- The strange neglect which had produced this ruin and waste became the subject of whispered talk among all the people round; and it was elicited from one of Boldwood's men that forgetfulness had nothing to do with it, for he had been reminded of the danger to his corn as many times and as persistently as inferiors dared to do.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father looked carelessly at the title page of my book and said, 'Ah!Cornelius Agrippa!My dear Vic-tor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash.'
-- A man might be respected with only one of these advantages, but without either he was considered, except in very rare in-stances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few!And what was I?
-- Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs and doomed him to waste in wretchedness!
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed such a terrible waste to spend all yourlittle girlhood learning how to be attractive and how to catch men and then only use the knowledge for a year or two.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are a rich man, upon my life, to waste wages in that way.
-- I had first seen him when I sent for him to lay this place waste for me; having read of him in the newspapers, before I and the world parted.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they all three rode on together, and on their way home came to a country that was laid waste by war and a dreadful famine, so that it was feared all must die for want.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That the largest balls thus discharged, would not only destroy whole ranks of an army at once, but batter 167the strongest walls to the ground, sink down ships, with a thousand men in each, to the bottom of the sea, and when linked together by a chain, would cut through masts and rigging, divide hundreds of bodies in the middle, and lay all waste before them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, good people all,' said he, 'this is wanton waste of time.
-- He thought of the waste of the best part of his life, of the change it made in his character for the worse every day, of the dreadful nature of his existence, bound hand and foot, to a dead woman, and tormented by a demon in her shape.
-- She hadn't my advantages disadvantages you would call 'em, but I call 'em advantages so you'll not waste your power, I dare say.'
-- Something to be worked so much and paid so much, and there ended; something to be infallibly settled by laws of supply and demand; something that blundered against those laws, and floundered into difficulty; something that was a little pinched when wheat was dear, and over-ate itself when wheat was cheap; something that increased at such a rate of percentage, and yielded such another percentage of crime, and such another percentage of pauperism; something wholesale, of which vast fortunes were made; something that occasionally rose like a sea, and did some harm and waste (chiefly to itself), and fell again; this she knew the Coketown Hands to be.
-- Even the coming sun made but a pale waste in the sky, like a sad sea.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The indentations on the bar of iron are the marks of teeth!What jaws must the owner of such molars be possessed of!Have well then, come upon a monster of unknown species, which still exists within the vast waste of waters--a monster more voracious than a shark, more terrible and bulky than the whale?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew he had been asked down to Wragby to be made use of, and like an old, shrewd, almost indif-ferent business man, or big-business man, he let himself be asked questions, and he answered with as little waste of feeling as possible.
-- But what goes in waste is saved in wages, and a lot more.
-- I don't want to waste time at Wragby, it's an awful place.
-- So I'm a bit of a waste ticket by myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't waste your time in clasping your hands and biting your fingers,' responded the practical turnkey, taking him by the elbow, 'but come along with me.'
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