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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will then learn in possibly twenty cases out of the twenty-three that the waste of the day be-fore has been burned or removed.
-- We may waste time in follow-ing the wrong one, but sooner or later we must come upon the right.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What an eternity of days, and all mine!How I should grudge and count up ev-ery minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!'
-- The Epanchin family had at last made up their minds to spend the summer abroad, all except the general, who could not waste time in 'travelling for enjoyment,' of course.
-- He washed and changed, and hurriedly left the hotel again, as though anxious to waste no time.
-- 'Yes, and I heard that you were here, too,' added Evge-nie Pavlovitch; 'and since I had long promised myself the pleasure of seeking not only your acquaintance but your friendship, I did not wish to waste time, but came straight on.
-- I don't know whether I like him or not; and I have no time to waste over the ques-tion.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Achilles went all alone by the side of the hoar sea, weeping and looking out upon the boundless waste of waters.
-- We waste our time in words, and for all our talking here shall be no further forward.
-- He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a strong man's hand has reclaimed even so were the dense phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.
-- Thrice did Achilles spring towards him spear in hand, and thrice did he waste his blow upon the air.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a kind of upward striving in them, part vanity, part waste sexual emotion, part waste curi-osity.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Black Panther had raced up the slope almost without a sound and was striking he knew better than to waste time in biting right and left among the monkeys, who were seated round Mowgli in circles fifty and sixty deep.
-- Rikki-tikki knew better than to waste time in staring.
-- There-fore all the wild elephants to-night will but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the most confident and the stoutest hearts began to think the issue of the contest was becoming doubt-ful; and that abject class was hourly increasing in numbers, who thought they foresaw all the possessions of the English crown in America subdued by their Christian foes, or laid waste by the inroads of their relentless allies.
-- We have a few moments to spare; let us not waste them in talk like wrangling wom-en.
-- 'Let them burn their powder,' said the deliberate scout, while bullet after bullet whizzed by the place where he se-curely lay; 'there will be a fine gathering of lead when it is over, and I fancy the imps will tire of the sport afore these old stones cry out for mercy!Uncas, boy, you waste the ker-nels by overcharging; and a kicking rifle never carries a true bullet.
-- That humid and congenial atmosphere which commonly adorned the view, veiling its harshness, and softening its asperities, had disappeared, the northern air poured across the waste of water so harsh and unmingled, that nothing was left to be conjectured by the eye, or fashioned by the fancy.
-- 'If them varlets have passed a minute, they have spent hours in striv-ing to fabricate a lying end to their trail!Well, I've known them to waste a day in the same manner to as little purpose.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
-- Far below him the Tappan Zee spread its dusky and indistinct waste of waters, with here and there the tall mast of a sloop, riding quietly at anchor under the land.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was probably a worthy member of society, a good husband and father, an honest broker; but there was no reason to waste one's time over him.
-- He was busy, and could waste no more time on us.
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