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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He scarcely spoke, and certainly he did not waste his breath in useless words.
-- "We shall be forced to come to that, and I think it is useless to waste our time in idle discussion."
-- John Mangles did not waste time on him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rain, carried aslant by flaws of wind, blackened that side of the central building which he had visited last night, but left a narrow dry trough under the lee of the wall, where he walked up and down among the waits of straw and dust and paper, the waste droppings of the pump, and the stray leaves of yesterday's greens.
-- Plornish, having been made acquainted with the cause of action from the Defendant's own mouth, gave Arthur to understand that the Plaintiff was a 'Chaunter' meaning, not a singer of anthems, but a seller of horses and that he (Plornish) considered that ten shillings in the pound 'would settle handsome,' and that more would be a waste of money.
-- Lion and I being determined not to waste anything of our weekly visit, turned out early, and came over from Kingston, my present headquarters, where I am making a sketch or two.'
-- Mr Pancks was not a man to waste his time and trouble in researches prompted by idle curiosity.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, we have tried not to waste our holiday, but each has had a task and worked at it with a will.
-- 'Oh, dear, I'm so sorry, for you'll get to liking it better and better, and will waste time and money, and grow like those dreadful boys.
-- 'The Lord keep the dear man!I won't waste no time a-cryin', but git your things ready right away, mum,' she said heartily, as she wiped her face on her apron, gave her mis-tress a warm shake of the hand with her own hard one, and went away to work like three women in one.
-- I don't mean to waste your money, and I didn't think those little things would count up so.
-- Returning suddenly to her admonitory tone, she said, drop-ping her voice, 'If you must have a 'went', Teddy, go and devote yourself to one of the 'pretty, modest girls' whom you do respect, and not waste your time with the silly ones.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Starbuck, mind that cooper don't waste the spare staves.
-- "Either do that, sir, or waste in one day more oil than we may make good in a year.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then sat still five minutes longer; but unable to waste such a pre-cious occasion, she suddenly got up, and saying to Kitty, 'Come here, my love, I want to speak to you,' took her out of the room.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the best of my calculation, that place where I now was must be that country which, lying between the Em-peror of Morocco's dominions and the negroes, lies waste and uninhabited, except by wild beasts; the negroes having abandoned it and gone farther south for fear of the Moors, and the Moors not thinking it worth inhabiting by reason of its barrenness; and indeed, both forsaking it because of the prodigious number of tigers, lions, leopards, and other furious creatures which harbour there; so that the Moors use it for their hunting only, where they go like an army, two or three thousand men at a time; and indeed for near a hundred miles together upon this coast we saw nothing but a waste, uninhabited country by day, and heard nothing but howlings and roaring of wild beasts by night.
-- Sometimes I thought if digging a hole under the place where they made their fire, and putting in five or six pounds of gunpowder, which, when they kindled their fire, would consequently take fire, and blow up all that was near it: but as, in the first place, I should be unwilling to waste so much powder upon them, my store being now within the quantity of one barrel, so neither could I be sure of its going off at any certain time, when it might surprise them; and, at best, that it would do little more than just blow the fire about their ears and fright them, but not sufficient to make them forsake the place: so I laid it aside; and then proposed that I would place myself in ambush in some convenient place, with my three guns all double-loaded, and in the middle of their bloody ceremony let fly at them, when I should be sure to kill or wound perhaps two or three at every shot; and then falling in upon them with my three pistols and my sword, I made no doubt but that, if there were twenty, I should kill them all.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You don't know how much I need some one to waste a little affection on me.
-- This useful elevator, by which fuel, groceries, and the like were sent up from the basement, and garbage and waste sent down, was used by both residents of one floor; that is, a small door opened into it from each flat.
-- Thirteenth Street was a number of blocks off, but she went back, carrying the precious paper and regretting the waste of time.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking!I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The law's delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take, In the dead waste and middle of the night, when churchyards yawn In customary suits of solemn black, But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, Breathes forth contagion on the world, And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i' the adage, Is sicklied o'er with care, And all the clouds that lowered o'er our housetops, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
-- It jolted her up like everything, of course; but I was over the shoal water now, so I went right along, her eyes a-blaz-ing higher and higher all the time, and told her every blame thing, from where we first struck that young fool going up to the steamboat, clear through to where she flung herself on to the king's breast at the front door and he kissed her sixteen or seventeen times and then up she jumps, with her face afire like sunset, and says: 'The brute!Come, don't waste a minute not a SEC-OND we'll have them tarred and feathered, and flung in the river!'
-- Now, the way I look at it, a hickry-bark lad-der don't cost nothing, and don't waste nothing, and is just as good to load up a pie with, and hide in a straw tick, as any rag ladder you can start; and as for Jim, he ain't had no ex-perience, and so he don't care what kind of a ' 'Oh, shucks, Huck Finn, if I was as ignorant as you I'd keep still that's what I'D do.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wanted to study and to succeed in school, but Lamp-Wick said to me, 'Why do you want to waste your time studying?
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