Wasteful
['weɪstfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['westfl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) laying waste; 'when wasteful war shall statues overturn'- Shakespeare .
(adj.) tending to squander and waste .
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解釋/意思:
(a.) Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
(a.) Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.
(a.) Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Destructive, ruinous.[2]. Lavish, prodigal, profuse, extravagant, thriftless, unthrifty, too free, too liberal.
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同義詞及反義詞：
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例句/造句/用法:
- They were a forest people, not a steppe people, and, consequently, wasteful of wood; they were a cattle people and not a horse people. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- What wasteful desolation have we not suffered from the deluge of a sudden shower! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- That is a shallow and wasteful use of the resources of art. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- So began the first of the most wasteful and disastrous series of wars that has ever darkened the history of mankind. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- By such practical methods Edison found that the thin, laminated cores of sheet iron gave the least heat, and had the least amount of wasteful eddy currents. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- All this wasteful, wanton chess-playing IS very strange. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Frontal attacks are even more wasteful in learning than in war. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- To his own people Solomon was a wasteful and oppressive monarch, and already before his death his kingdom was splitting, visibly to all men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Broad as the prairies and free in thought as the winds that sweep them, he is idiosyncratically opposed to loose and wasteful methods, to plans of empire that neglect the poor at the gate. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Nobody ever had a bigger scrap-heap than Edison; but who dare proclaim the process intrinsically wasteful if the losses occur in the initial stages, and the economies in all the later ones? 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- On the contrary, all of the few types then obtainable were uneconomical, indeed wasteful, in regard to efficiency. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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