wastefulness

英

美

n.  浪费，挥霍，耗费

BNC.44497 / COCA.38417

英英释义

noun

• useless or profitless activity
  1. if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste
  2. mindless dissipation of natural resources
  Synonym:wastedissipation
• the trait of wasting resources
  1. a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
  2. the wastefulness of missed opportunities
  Synonym:thriftlessnesswaste

双语例句

• If your Value Stream Map reveals long test "cycles" in the end game, it's very likely that you are guaranteeing wastefulness.
  如果您的价值流图揭示了长期测试的“循环”，那么就能保证其中无效率内容的存在了。
• He thinks scorn of wastefulness in his superiors.
  他蔑视他的上级挥霍浪费。
• Other societies have begun to imitate the wastefulness of the west.
  其他社会已开始仿效西方的挥霍浪费。
• It's clear redundancy, wastefulness and inefficiency.
  这显然是人浮于事、浪费物力以及效率低下。
• It seems to be a part of our culture of plenty, even though wastefulness is always discouraged.
  浪费似乎是我们富裕生活文化的一个组成部分，尽管这种行为总是遭到阻止的。
• All these-plus the yield-reductions that may come from climate change, and wastefulness in getting food to markets-mean that the big problems are to do with supply, not demand.
  所有这些，再加上气候变化可能带来的产量减少，和将食物运入市场过程中的浪费，都意味着大问题不在需求，而在于供应。
• Wherever we happen to be, we must treasure our manpower and material resources, and must not take a short view and indulge in wastefulness and extravagance.
  任何地方必须十分爱惜人力物力，决不可只顾一时，滥用浪费。
• We're pained to see such wastefulness.
  我们看到这种浪费现象很痛心。
• Greenpeace activists crush light bulbs during a protest against energy wastefulness in berlin, germany.
  4月20日德国柏林，绿色和平组织的成员将一些灯泡碾碎以此抗议能源浪费现象。
• It is this terrible wastefulness that has got us into the mess we are in now.
  正是这可怕的浪费使我们陷入了目前的困境。