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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accustomed to go far into the regions of scientific reality, he would not allow himself to be drawn into the regions of the strange and almost of the supernatural; but yet how to explain why Top, one of those sensible dogs who never waste their time in barking at the moon, should persist in trying with scent and hearing to fathom this abyss, if there was nothing there to cause his uneasiness?
-- It is true that the sailor considered the monkeys from a purely alimentary point of view, for those animals which are herbivorous make very excellent game; but since they had an abundant supply of provisions, it was a pity to waste their ammunition.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It has come to other men who do nothing but waste and riot.
-- In a very few minutes Mr Swiviller was fast asleep, dreaming that he had married Nelly Trent and come into the property, and that his first act of power was to lay waste the market-garden of Mr Cheggs and turn it into a brick-field.
-- 'If you are sorrowful, let me know why and be sorrowful too; if you waste away and are paler and weaker every day, let me be your nurse and try to comfort you.
-- On every piece of waste or common ground, some small gambler drove his noisy trade, and bellowed to the idle passersby to stop and try their chance; the crowd grew thicker and more noisy; gilt gingerbread in blanket-stalls exposed its glories to the dust; and often a four-horse carriage, dashing by, obscured all objects in the gritty cloud it raised, and left them, stunned and blinded, far behind.
-- The house stood if anything so old and feeble could be said to stand on a piece of waste ground, blighted with the unwholesome smoke of factory chimneys, and echoing the clank of iron wheels and rush of troubled water.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't want to waste this model, and then be told I'm a quack."
-- My general impression of the world I saw over their heads was a tangled waste of beautiful bushes and flowers, a long neglected and yet weedless garden.
-- Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.
-- I resolved I would make the descent without further waste of time, and started out in the early morning towards a well near the ruins of granite and aluminium.
-- But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, that's unfort'nate appears as if killing parties was a waste of time.
-- Are we a-going to waste a hostage?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This vacuum economised the graphite points between which the luminous arc was developed an important point of economy for Captain Nemo, who could not easily have replaced them; and under these conditions their waste was imperceptible.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you, you spoil your own chance of life you waste your best self."
-- In the midst of the last deserted valleys of heaven stood a lonely building with brown wooden walls and white heavy roof, deep and deserted in the waste of snow, like a dream.
-- It was unbelievable that one could live there uncrushed by all this terrible waste of whiteness and silence and clear, upper, ringing cold.
-- You break me you only waste me it is horrible to me."
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