You can take heat energy and convert it to work energy and vice versa, and it doesn't say anything about that you have to waste heat if you're going to transform heat into work.

你可以把热能便成功,也可以反过来,但它对于如果你要把热变成功,就必须浪费热量这件事只字未提,它只是说这是能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

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

The ones who would seek out calories, the ones who could store and not waste energy, those with an efficient metabolism-- that is those people who took in calories and banked them into their body fat and stored against subsequent famine-- are the ones who would do the best under these circumstances.

那些寻找能量的人,那些储存而不浪费能量的人,那些有着高效代谢系统的人,那些人可以将摄入的热量储存为机体脂肪,以用于对抗即将到来的饥荒,在早先的情况下他们是最适应环境的

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