| 单词 | to go to waste |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go to waste b. to go to waste: to be wasted. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (intransitive)] > be wasteful > be wasted to go to wastea1500 to run to waste1511 to flow at waste1641 to fly waste1770 to run waste1814 a1500 Hist. K. Boccus & Sydracke (?1510) sig. G iijv There goyth of it [sc. of the sea] to wast somdele As euery man may wyt wel. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature II. 144 There is not a particle of vapour in the Universe that goes to waste. 1854 Poultry Chron. 2 42 We are importing ship-load after ship-load of guano..while hundreds of tons of poultry manure, which is ascertained to be equal in value, is suffered to go to waste in the United States. 1866 T. T. Stoddart Angler's Rambles 365 Five-sixths at the least of salmon ova go directly to waste. < as lemmas |
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