wastefulness n. 浪费;挥霍无度
- Earlier this season I inquired about the wastefulness of Chelsea corners.
早在赛季初期,我就发现切尔西浪费了一大堆的角球。 - Pearls shells cast up by the sea on death's barren beach, —— a magnificent wastefulness of creative life.
珍珠贝壳被大海抛到了死亡的沙滩上——那是一种为创造生命而付出的奢侈的代价。 - In an era of extravagance and wastefulness, I hope to be able to show the world, human things that really need very modest.
在一个奢华浪费的年代,我希望能向世界表明,人类真正需要的东西使非常之微少的。
wastefulness[ noun ]- the trait of wasting resources
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a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
the wastefulness of missed opportunities
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
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if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste
mindless dissipation of natural resources
Wasteful \Waste"ful\, a.
1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
2. 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.
3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.]
In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.
--Spenser.
Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
※ -- {Waste"ful*ly}, adv. --
{Waste"ful*ness}, n.