He says about two-thirds of the cost can be paid for with money that is currently being "wasted,"

VOA: special.2009.07.25

It has its statutes, sort of the mock constitution, and its rituals that involve basically getting wasted.

他们有自己的规则 一种仿宪法的章程,还有基本上是腐败挥霍的仪式

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

stumbling around the park, you know, because they're wasted.

在公园闲逛，因为他们很悠闲。

关于威廉斯堡 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Grant wasted no time. He quickly sent troops to fight the Confederate force blocking the Tennessee River.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

You've wasted a lot of energy in doing that process.

在这个过程中,你浪费了很多能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Wilson wasted no time. He immediately called a special session of Congress to act on Democratic campaign promises to reduce import taxes,or tariffs.

VOA: special.2010.09.23

I wasted your time here.

我不好意思浪费了你们时间。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

People felt that a year had been wasted, that thousands had died for no real purpose.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Soil was being eroded and wasted along the Eastern seaboard, and they were using up the great soils of the Mississippi Valley and over time that slave system just somehow wasn't going to work out.

东部沿海地区的土地因被侵蚀而荒废掉,密西西比河谷地区的土地资源即将被耗尽,但就在这种情况下,奴隶制依然能维持南方的经济

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The Martians that he imagined lived on a dry and wasted planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

But, they create a Central Commission of Hygiene and Sobriety which tell people-- encourage people to eat healthfully, and don't just get wasted all the time-- which is what I would have done, I'll tell you that.

但巴黎人很快成立了中央卫生委员会,旨在宣传并鼓励人们,健康饮食,告诫人们不要总是浪费时间,老实说,如果我在那里的话,早就这么做了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

They want to make sure their financial investment is not being wasted.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

In that process there is a metabolic engine at work, and some people have an efficient engine so that the calories in get banked in the fat, other people have an inefficient engine, that is the calories get wasted as body heat and things like that, and they tend not to gain weight.

这过程中人体内有个工作着的代谢引擎,有些人的代谢引擎效率很高,热量便转化为脂肪储存起来,另一些人的效率低下,能量就以体温等形式被浪费了,因此他们就不容易发胖

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Millicent wasted Mister Mindon's money and was unpleasant to him.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

He had this thing called the drunken assembly, which was in a way kind of a mockery of parliamentary representations where his cronies would come and just get wasted and would make all sorts of flamboyant proclamations that seemed to represent what a real parliament would do.

他有个被戏称为"酒鬼议会"的东西,这个"酒鬼议会"是对议会代表们的嘲弄,他们也会开会,但不过是浪费时间,还发表一些冠冕堂皇的声明,就好像一个真正的议会似的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Millicent wasted Mr. Mindon's money and was unpleasant to him.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

I get to the end of the loop, and I actually do a little bit of wasted motion there. And the little bit of wasted motion is, I take the value at i, store it away temporarily, take the value where min index is pointing to, put it back in there, and then swap it around.

我走到了循环的末尾，事实上我做了多余的动作了,有点多余的是我把i的值，临时保存起来了，看看MinIndex指向的值，放回到哪里，然后再交换。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And they wasted no time doing just that.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

No time was wasted.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The Mormons wasted no time.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Prosecutor Alan Tieger wasted no time, dramatically launching into the case he intends to present.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed El-Baradei, who attended the conference, says nuclear disarmament has moved to the top of the international agenda after a couple of what he calls "wasted decades."

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

opportunities wasted. All of our development work -- child survival, maternal and child health, child protection -- all of it in the most disadvantaged communities hinges on educating girls, as well as boys.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19