1. go to waste : 浪费掉, 白费；
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1. 浪费;白费
If you waste something such as time, money, or energy, you use too much of it doing something that is not important or necessary, or is unlikely to succeed.
2. 浪费;滥用;糟蹋
Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it.
3. 废物;废料
Waste is material which has been used and is no longer wanted, for example because the valuable or useful part of it has been taken out.
4. 错过(机会)
If you waste an opportunity for something, you do not take advantage of it when it is available.
5. （因不被接受、理解等而）浪费（建议等）；使徒劳无益
If you say that something is wasted on someone, you mean that there is no point giving it or telling it to them as they will not appreciate, understand, or pay any attention to it.
6. (尤指市内或市郊的土地)荒芜的，荒废的
Waste land is land, especially in or near a city, which is not used or looked after by anyone, and so is covered by wild plants and rubbish.
7. 荒漠;沙漠
Wastes are a large area of land, for example a desert, in which there are very few people, plants, or animals.
8. see also: wasted
9. 被浪费;被糟蹋掉
If something goes to waste, it remains unused or has to be thrown away.
10. 摧毁;把…变为荒地
If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.
11. 勤俭节约，吃穿不缺
The expression waste not, want not means that if you do not use too much of something now you will have some left later when you need it.
12. to waste your breath - see breath
to waste no time - see time
相关词组：waste away
1. useless or profitless activity
using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
e.g. if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste
mindless dissipation of natural resources
Synonym: wastefulnessdissipation
2. (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
Synonym: permissive waste
3. the trait of wasting resources
e.g. a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
the wastefulness of missed opportunities
Synonym: thriftlessnesswastefulness
4. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
e.g. the barrens of central Africa
the trackless wastes of the desert
5. any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
e.g. they collect the waste once a week
much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers