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v. 浪费7 次
(48) One possibility was that they merely used their eyes and tried out the plants they found, but that would probably result in a lot of wasted time and energy, not least because their eyesight is actually not very good.
（48）一种可能是，它们仅仅靠眼睛观察，并尝试所发现的植物，但这很可能会浪费大量时间和精力，尤其是因为它们的视力其实并不好。
And it should: Wasted time is a drag on Americans’ economic and private lives, not to mention infuriating.
而这也理所应当：浪费时间拖累着美国人的经济生活和私人生活，更不用说令人恼火了。
Peretti says the Times shouldn’t waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.
佩雷蒂说，《纽约时报》应尽快退出印刷业务，但前提是要以正确的方式去做。
Immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting.
相比之下，沉浸式阅读取决于是否愿意承受低效、漫无目的甚至浪费时间的风险。
“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.”
加里·埃伯利在他的《神圣时间》一书中写道：“未来像一个个空瓶子沿着一条无法停止、几乎无限长的传送带向我们涌来”，并且“我们感到一种压力，要在这些大小不一的瓶子（日、时、分）经过时将其装满，因为如果它们未被装满就溜走了，我们就浪费了它们。”
Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent releases, and more profit.
周转更快意味着积压浪费的库存更少、新品发布更频繁、利润更高。
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An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted — the trouble is, no one knows which half.
有句老话说，所有广告预算中有一半被浪费了——问题是，没人知道是哪一半。
n. 浪费5 次
waste of electricity in their projects.
在项目中浪费电力。
“Many jobs are boring, degrading, unhealthy, and a waste of human potential,” says John Danaher, a lecturer at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
“许多工作枯燥、有损尊严、不健康，而且浪费人的潜能，”爱尔兰国立大学戈尔韦分校的讲师约翰·丹纳赫说。
But even if you accept Friedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies as a waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.
但即便你接受弗里德曼的前提，认为企业社会责任（CSR）政策是在浪费股东的钱，事情也未必那么泾渭分明。
Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year — about 64 items per person — and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.
她发现，美国人每年购买约200亿件衣服——人均约64件——无论他们捐出多少，这种过量消费都会造成浪费。
combat unnecessary waste.
杜绝不必要的浪费。
n. 废物3 次
Pennsylvania farmers, to use one telling example, aren’t thinking about next year’s blue crab harvest in Maryland when they decide whether to spread animal waste on their fields, yet the runoff into nearby creeks can have enormous impact downstream.
举一个很能说明问题的例子：宾夕法尼亚州的农民在决定是否往田里施撒动物粪便时，并不会考虑马里兰州明年的蓝蟹收成，然而流入附近溪流的径流却可能对下游产生巨大影响。
The birds’ waste then fertilizes fields.
鸡的粪便随后又为田地施肥。
accelerating the disposal of wastes.
加快废物处理
a. 荒芜的1 次
Their Olaf Street Study, a square of brick-strewn waste ground, is one of the few works here to embrace the commonplaceness that characterises most of our experience of the landscape most of the time.
他们的《奥拉夫街习作》呈现了一块散落着砖块的方形荒地，是这里少数几件拥抱平凡的作品之一，而这种平凡正是我们大多数时候对风景的大部分体验的特征。
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Waste not, want not
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