那么些食物都浪费了，真是太不像话了。

It's a crying shame to waste all that food.

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因此，专家建议不再需要值勤指挥官的批准，因为军官花在获得批准上的时间大部分都浪费了。

The expert therefore recommends that the watch commander's approval should no longer be required since the officers' time spent obtaining approval is largely wasted.

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其中40%的电能用于老式白炽灯——这是19世纪的一项技术，它所消耗的大部分电能都浪费在制造多余的热量上。

Forty percent of that powers old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs—a 19th-century technology that wastes most of the power it consumes on unwanted heat.

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He was not against the church, but he thought that people were wasting time being monks, and other people were all over the place in their Russian Orthodox equivalent.

他并不反对东正教,但他认为人们当僧侣,简直就是浪费时间,所有的人在东正教堂里都是地位平等的

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You figure that most of those boxes are being eaten by somebody or another, there's some waste that you might calculate in, but there--error gets introduced there trying to estimate that, so you get a number on that.

你的计算中大部分食品,都被人们吃了,浪费的那些也要计算进来,但其中的误差,也要估算出来,最后得出一个数字

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