| 单词 | wasteful |
| 释义 | wasteful adjective disapprovinguk/ˈweɪst.fəl/us/ˈweɪst.fəl/using something in acarelessway andcausingsome of it to bewasted: 浪费It's wasteful the way youthrowso muchfoodaway!你把那么多食物扔掉太浪费了！ Wasting
wasteful| American Dictionarywasteful adjective us/ˈweɪst·fəl/wastefuladjective(BAD USE)being abaduse of somethingvaluablethat you have only alimitedamountof: wastefulspending a wasteful use ofresources wasteful| Business Englishwasteful adjective uk/ˈweɪstfəl/usnot beingcarefulabout theamountofresourcesused for something: Topbusinessadvisershave beenbroughtin toidentifyareasofwastefulgovernmentspending. Examplesofwastefulwasteful If a government's decisions are made badly, they will be verywastefulof people's lives. From theCambridge English Corpus It iswastefulto throw out a repository of patterns, some of which may have been established over millennia. From theCambridge English Corpus Entrance to a 'community' or a 'pays' is also trying to reduce the tendency to spreadwastefuland non-productive investments. From theCambridge English Corpus We do not want to introduce suchwastefulcode duplication. From theCambridge English Corpus Also, audio rate processing iswastefulon control rate signals that have low bandwidth. From theCambridge English Corpus The book is formatted in a technical writing style known as information mapping, which is certainly clear albeit verywastefulof space. From theCambridge English Corpus Such analysis could be helpful in decreasing thewastefuluse of resources that result from establishment of plantations that are not surviving. From theCambridge English Corpus Parasites and parasitoids often shut down host investment in reproduction which iswastefulfrom the parasite's point of view. From theCambridge English Corpus This largest-sized 3 approach is potentiallywastefulbut gives flexibility and helps to avoid garbage collection. From theCambridge English Corpus Our critical response was to the transient and ephemeral nature of shopping which we saw aswastefuland frivolous. From theCambridge English Corpus The considerable costs of her earlier treatment had been futile, distressing, andwasteful. From theCambridge English Corpus Discovering these preferences is taken to be awastefuland inefficient activity. From theCambridge English Corpus All three selection processes are also incrediblywastefuland inefficient. From theCambridge English Corpus We suspect that selection processes are able to produce genuine novelty and organization only because they are so incrediblywasteful. From theCambridge English Corpus Presumably the machinery for release-ribbons, molecular motors, tethering proteins, etc-is energetically expensive to maintain and bulky, and so an overcapacity for release would bewasteful. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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