Question

wasteful adj.浪费的；挥霍的 (1) 他的弱点是爱浪费。(2) 我们必须避免无谓的重复劳动。(3) 把玻璃，纸张以及金属扔掉是很浪费的。(4) 世界能源的短缺，部分是由于工业化国家挥霍能源而引起的。 You can be wasteful with your money, spending too much of it on unimportant things. Some people are wasteful with food, ordering too much at a restaurant and leaving most of it on the plate. It's possible to be wasteful with almost anything that you squander without thinking about, including electricity or heat or even your own creative energy. The Latin root of waste is vastus, "empty or desolate."

Accepted Answer

英 ['weɪstfl] 美 ['weɪstfl] (1) His weakness is that he is very wasteful.(2) We must avoid wasteful duplication of effort.(3) It is wasteful to throw way glass, paper and metal.(4) The energy shortage of the world results partly from wasteful use by the industrialized countries. Someone who's wasteful uses and disposes of things carelessly. A wasteful child might eat two bites of yogurt and then throw the rest of the container away. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]浪费的；耗费的；挥霍的 Action that is wasteful uses too much of something valuable such as time, money, or energy. This kind of training is ineffective, and wasteful of scarce resources...这种训练没有效率，而且是对稀缺资源的浪费。Try to avoid wasteful duplication of effort.尽量避免无用的重复劳动。wastefullyThe law should impose penalties on companies that use energy wastefully.法律应当严惩浪费能源的公司。

英语单词	wasteful
英美音标	英 ['weɪstfl] 美 ['weɪstfl]
中文释义	adj.浪费的；挥霍的
英语例句	(1) His weakness is that he is very wasteful. (2) We must avoid wasteful duplication of effort. (3) It is wasteful to throw way glass, paper and metal. (4) The energy shortage of the world results partly from wasteful use by the industrialized countries.
中文例句	(1) 他的弱点是爱浪费。 (2) 我们必须避免无谓的重复劳动。 (3) 把玻璃，纸张以及金属扔掉是很浪费的。 (4) 世界能源的短缺，部分是由于工业化国家挥霍能源而引起的。
vocabulary简明	Someone who's wasteful uses and disposes of things carelessly. A wasteful child might eat two bites of yogurt and then throw the rest of the container away.
vocabulary扩展	You can be wasteful with your money, spending too much of it on unimportant things. Some people are wasteful with food, ordering too much at a restaurant and leaving most of it on the plate. It's possible to be wasteful with almost anything that you squander without thinking about, including electricity or heat or even your own creative energy. The Latin root of waste is vastus, "empty or desolate."
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]浪费的；耗费的；挥霍的 Action that is wasteful uses too much of something valuable such as time, money, or energy. This kind of training is ineffective, and wasteful of scarce resources... 这种训练没有效率，而且是对稀缺资源的浪费。 Try to avoid wasteful duplication of effort. 尽量避免无用的重复劳动。 wastefully The law should impose penalties on companies that use energy wastefully. 法律应当严惩浪费能源的公司。

Wasteful Avoid Duplication Effort Throw Energy Money 英