wasteful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 浪费的； 破坏性的，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：
-- 'I tell you, Uncas,' said the former, as Heyward joined them, 'you are wasteful of your powder, and the kick of the rifle disconcerts your aim!Little powder, light lead, and a long arm, seldom fail of bringing the death screech from a Mingo!At least, such has been my experience with the crea-tur's.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On their walks, at dinner, in the dissolute and deliciously wasteful quarter-hour when they sat on the edge of the bed with comforters wrapped about them and smoked an inexcusable cigarette before breakfast, he explained his work to her, and when her own studying was done, she tried to read whichever of his books was not in use.
-- What would be the worth of having all the world if he could not show it to her, if she was not there-- He denounced Nature for her way of tricking human beings, by every gay device of moonlight and white limbs and reaching loneliness, into having babies, then making birth as cruel and clumsy and wasteful as she could.
-- Why, my boy, you won't need to sit up nights using your hands in this wasteful way, but just think things out and take up possible extensions of the work-cover all the possible fields.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As his own position was not a very pleasant one until the matter was set at rest one way or other, he did so; and Miss Brass, plying her snuff-box at a most wasteful rate, corroborated his account.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is it proper that peasants should overwork themselves without getting enough to eat, while we are living in such wasteful luxury?"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the same wasteful spirit, they had cooked, I suppose, three times more than we could eat; and one of them, with an empty laugh, threw what was left into the fire, which blazed and roared again over this unusual fuel.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 219THE QUEEN BEE wo kings' sons once upon a time went into the world Tto seek their fortunes; but they soon fell into a wasteful foolish way of living, so that they could not return home again.
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：
-- And they say it's wasteful as well.
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