Wasting

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waste

(a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.

校对:斯宾塞

• Devilish cold,' he added pettishly, 'standing at that door, wasting one's time with such seedy vagabonds! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Not once; but I assure you she is wasting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Her thinness seemed to be the effect of some wasting fire within her, which found a vent in her gaunt eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• That's the worst of it--people say she isn't wasting her time! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Our chance of catching the thieves may depend on our not wasting one unnecessary minute. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I HAVE lingered thus long on the extreme bank, the wasting shoal that stretched into the stream of life, dallying with the shadow of death. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• What's the use of our wasting another year? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Stillmenial and distasteful as they were, my mental pain was far more wasting and wearing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Behind evil there is power, and it is folly,--wasting and disappointing folly,--to ignore this power because it has found an evil issue. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• One may call it that, though really it can hardly be called wasting them, because there were always plenty of kings in those days, and to spare. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But experience shows, I believe, that it is a fruitless conflict and a wasting enthusiasm. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But, in the detail which he gave you of them, he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured, wasting in impotent passions. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Then what are you wasting your time for here? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

整理:李奥娜