wasting的意思|wasting的解释-里氏词典

wasting ['weistiŋ]

a. 造成浪费的, 消耗性的

[医] 消瘦, 消耗

wasting

[ noun ]

any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease

<noun.state>

a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

<noun.state>

Wasting \Wast"ing\, a.
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a
wasting disease; a wasting fortune.

{Wasting palsy} (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See
under {Progressive}.

Waste \Waste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wasting}.] [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F.
g[^a]ter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr.
vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but
influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosten, G.
w["u]sten, AS. w[=e]stan. See {Waste}, a.]
1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted,
Art made a mirror to behold my plight. --Spenser.

The Tiber
Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
--Dryden.

2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish
by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear
out.

Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
--Num. xiv.
33.

O, were I able
To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! --Milton.

Here condemned
To waste eternal days in woe and pain. --Milton.

Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of
age daily grew on him. --Robertson.

3. To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ
prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to
useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause
to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

The younger son gathered all together, and . . .
wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv.
13.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray.

4. (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate,
voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc.,
to go to decay.

Syn: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.

Such cases wouldn't see daylight in the West." EDITOR'S NOTE _ He's been called the "Wizard of Weston," a professional inventor who doesn't believe in wasting his time on products that won't sell.
Meanwhile, the prospect of Ragu wasting $20 million to establish a brand that may soon be pulled off the shelves has Campbell licking its lips.
To blunt criticism about wasting food by destroying the fruitcakes, station KZFX will require participants to donate a food item for the poor.
For liberal opinion, abortion is justified whenever the continuation of a pregnancy would have an especially bad effect on other lives by frustrating or wasting them, or would result in a deeply frustrated life for the child itself if it were born.
You're wasting your time if you put in valuations.' Mr Lewis set up a working party on valuations, which will examine methodology and is due to report by early March next year.
People with cancer may spend thousands of dollars on unconventional treatments based on unusual diets, but they are wasting their money, the researcher said.
In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Kotler estimated that 70 percent to 80 percent of AIDS patients die as a result of wasting away.
DELIVERY CHARGE: $304 Federal regulators, wasting no time in implementing portions of President Bush's savings and loan rescue plan, have begun taking control of more than 200 insolvent savings and loans still operating.
Critics say Mr. Maystadt is wasting his time with such sermons.
The Iraqi statement dismissed Iran's position as "fantasy" and accused Tehran of wasting time.
But instead of wasting their funds on plant pathologists, we suggest they hire a Washington lawyer who can explain what Uncle Sam will let them do to save their own trees.
His dark eyes were round and open wide, too big for his wasting body.
It was a mixture of regret ("he's wasting a perfectly good life") and disgust ("he has no one to blame but himself"), with the scales tipped noticeably toward disgust.
Pierce said he had one meeting with Watt but "no promises were made to him." He said he would have advised housing authorities and developers who hired consultants that they were wasting their money.
They are not "blissfully wasting enormous amounts of electricity."
In the countryside in 1932-33, as many as eight million starved to death in accordance with an agricultural policy based on killing "kulaks" (farmers) outright or just wasting their lands.
But according to Mr Diaz, they are wasting the scarce resource of water by growing thirsty crops like rice and sugar-cane. 'Peru's coast has the great advantage that, because there's no rain, irrigation is man-managed.
The appeals court considered the case immediately "in light of the urgency of this matter, due to the rapidly wasting value of FNN's assets," but said it lacked jurisdiction to intervene in the FNN case.
When I am a teen-ager, I'll be able to manage money instead of wasting it.
These are seen as wasting the opportunity for a large-scale rally with 'razzmatazz'. But the Tories seem cheered by the impact of Labour's health broadcast.
Moreover, when given in straight infusions, it can cause severe wasting of the body.
"It's not as easy wasting gas as you'd think," he says.
Reports of death, or at least a serious wasting disease, at the English National Opera have been piling up this season, the last under the artistic triumvirate of Jonas, Elder and Pountney.
"We are needlessly wasting hundreds of thousands of lives and millions of dollars a year because of our failure to provide adequate prenatal care to pregnant women," said Miller, D-Calif., chairman of the select committee.
We should not be wasting energy, being inefficient in its use, even if we didn't think we have a greenhouse effect, and because use of fossil fuels has other environmental hazards besides the greenhouse effect," she said.
This country has too many problem areas such as the homeless, AIDS and education to be wasting taxpayers' money needlessly.
This bolsters the belief that a genetic defect discovered last year causes the disease and opens the way to determining how lack of the protein leads to the wasting away of muscles that characterizes muscular dystrophy.
The figure is based on 10 billion cash transactions yearly and a cashier wasting two seconds per transaction fishing for pennies.
His approach has become wholly scientic. In Prost's world, a racing car driven with its tail hanging even slightly out is a car wasting energy which should be propelling it forward.
At the Hotel Rossiya, home to many of the American journalists and officials working at the summit, the local employees _ not widely known for wasting pleasantries _ are going out of their way to be helpful.

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