They whine o' lost an' wasted lives in idleness and crime -- I've wasted mine for twenty years, and grafted all the time And never drunk the stuff I earned, nor gambled when I shore -- But somehow when yer on the track yer life seems wasted more.英文原著 · 《In the Days When the World Was Wide》
I don't see that there is anything positively wrong with me. A certain lack of energy-- " "Lack of balance," corrected the doctor. "You are wasting energy upon internal friction. "But isn't that inevitable? No machine is perfectly efficient. No man either. There is always a waste. Waste of the type; waste of the individual idiosyncrasy.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
Shall rather enjoy doing it. And it's time that somebody did. Whether I'm strong enough to win has got to be seen."
She turned and looked at him then. She wondered why she had ever thought him ugly. "You can face it," she said: "the possibility of all your life's work being wasted?"
"It won't be wasted," he answered. "The land is there. I've seen it from afar and it's a good land, a land where no man shall go hungry. If not I, another shall lead the people into it.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
All the things in that closet should be shaken out, aired, and carefully put back. Who knows how useful they may be in the future! Waste is wicked. Indeed, there are few things more wicked than waste. Now I think of it, I have some keys in my trunk."英文原著 · 《He Fell In Love With His Wife》
"The generous earl, brave and bold, Who scatters his bright shining gold, Eirik with fire-scattering hand, Wasted the Russian monarch's land, -- With arrow-shower, and storm of war, Wasted the land of Valdemar. Aldeiga burns, and Eirik's might Scours through all Russia by its light."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
"In America," he said, "everything which does not tend to money is thought to be wasted, as our Quaker neighbor thinks the children's croquet-ground wasted, because it is not a potato field."英文原著 · 《Malbone》
All I'm talking about is investment, increasing productivity - and reducing waste. - Waste?!美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
Yeah, it's something to do with, uh, no city inspectors working today, and I'm guessing they're planning on having us dump toxic waste some place where toxic waste should not be dumped.美剧 · 《Shameless》