waste away

英 [weɪst əˈweɪ]

美 [weɪst əˈweɪ]

变消瘦; 变衰弱

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 变消瘦;变衰弱
  If someonewastes away, they become extremely thin or weak because they are ill or worried and they are not eating properly.
  1. Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.
     因患癌症濒临死亡的人会日渐消瘦，而且身体明显衰弱。

双语例句

• It is a waste to throw away good food.
  把好的食物扔掉是浪费。
• Do you sort the waste before throwing it away?
  你扔掉垃圾前分类了吗？
• The objective will be to divert all waste away from landfill during the Games.
  所有的废弃物都不运去垃圾场填埋，这就是奥运会期间的目标。
• Grow weak and thin or waste away physically.
  身体长得瘦小虚弱或日益消瘦。
• The gas clean system adopts spraying cooling round water, effectively to resolve the waste water drain away.
  产生的煤气冷却净化系统，采用系统内水循环工艺，有效地解决了污水排放问题；
• It's a wasteful to throw reusable waste away.
  扔掉可回收的废物是很浪费的。
• Machines were expected to do our work for us, leaving us with ever-increasing quantities of time to waste away on idleness and pleasure.
  那时我们觉得机器会替代我们工作，我们则有越来越多的时间休闲娱乐。
• I see you just let my face masks waste away.
  我看你就是想让我们的面膜浪费掉。
• Make good use of every second: please start a self-promise from today on, do not waste away precious time and contribute ur inner efforts on things that mean much to u.
  善用分分秒秒：请从今天开始自我约定，不要虚掷宝贵的时间，把心力集中在对自己很重要的事情上。
• The time and energy people waste pumping away at their arms should be spent on developing the major muscle groups.
  许多人浪费时间与力气在练他们的手臂，而他们应该要多花点时间在练他们的主要肌群上。