1. 用作动词，表示“浪费”，注意以下句型与结构：
(1) 用于 waste time (money) on [over, upon] sth，表示“在……方面浪费时间（金钱）”。如：
I don’t think we need waste much time on this. 我想我们不必在这上面
浪费时间了。
Don’t waste any more time over it. 不要再在这上面浪费时间了。
(2) 用于 waste time (money) (in, on) doing sth，表示“浪费时间（金钱）做某事”。如：
She wasted her time and money (on) paying bribes. 她将时间和金钱浪费于贿赂。
We wasted a whole afternoon (in) trying to repair the car. 我们浪费了整整一下午的时间想把汽车修理好。
waste 之后也可接除 time, money 之外的名词作宾语
The factory waste polluted the sea and killed the sea creatures.
工厂废水污染了海水，毒死了水中的各种生灵。
What a waste to throw the food away！
把这些食物扔掉真是太浪费了！
Base on the natural and economical situation, the model of power-free Combining with natural treatment is the suitable for the pig waste treatment in China.
基于我国的自然经济状况，认为我国大多数规模化猪场适宜于采用无动力－然处理模式。
The river was contaminated with waste from the factory.
这条河流被从工厂流出的废物所污染。
Don't waste water. Save water, please.
不要浪费水。请节约用水。
※No country , however rich , can afford the waste of its human resources .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president)——任何一个国家，不管它多么富裕，都浪费不起人力资源。(美国总统 罗斯富. F.)
※Men of privilege without power are waste material , Men of enlighten-ment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish.——H.V.Dyke , American writer and ducator享有特权而权力的人是废物。受过教育而没有影响的人是一文不值的垃圾。美国作家、教育家 戴克 H V
※Wilful waste makes woeful want. 浪费招致穷困。
