In addition,news agencies provide updates and companies share product information through Twitter Some critics say Twitter is a waste of time that takes people's attention away from their work.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

No time to waste. And we race off--perhaps risking an accident, who knows?

但是没有时间思考，圣诞老人要赶着发礼物？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Excavations at Jericho and Ai indicate that both of these towns were ; laid waste at least 200 years before the probable time of Joshua; so there weren't even any walls in Jericho at the time of Joshua.

耶利哥和艾城的挖掘都显示这两个城镇,都在约书亚前200年就已被毁损;,因此在约书亚时期，耶利哥根本就没有城墙。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

MCC Director Irene Paxia grew up in Italy, and knows first-hand how language barriers can waste precious time in emergencies.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

And I am not going to take the time to solve it because I think that is a waste of class time, but those are the three unknowns.

但我并不打算把解这几个方程,我觉得那会是浪费课堂时间，但那是三个未知式。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"At the same time cuts costs, the waste,the fraud,the duplication, endemic to our system and at the same time it covers 31 million people.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

I think it's terribly important to keep the distinction in the back of our minds even if we find it, in practical terms, well nigh impossible and possibly even in many contexts a waste of time to be perpetually enforcing it.

你们一定要牢记这个区别,这实在是太重要了，尽管有时我们发现在一些的文本中这种区别很微小,看上去不值得花时间去研究或使用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I wanna waste no time and get into introducing them.

我迫不及待地要向大家介绍我们的嘉宾们。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I stress it in particular because I know you're all going to get into this stage; you've got a problem set due in a couple of hours, you're still writing the code, you don't want to waste time, and I'm going to use quotes on "waste time", doing those extra things to do the defensive programming, you just want to get the darn thing done.

我特别强调了这一点,因为我知道你们都会慢慢成为程序员;,你在写代码过程中造成了一系列的错误，你还在写代码，你不想浪费时间，我想把“浪费时间“用引号圈起来，浪费时间来做因为防卫性程序设计，而带来的这些额外的事情,你只想赶紧把程序写完，这不是一个好习惯，因为当你做完回头。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选