But where can you hope to find a widow who would waste her time on a marriage proposal that has no marriage in it?"

VOA: special.2010.04.24

The longing heart accumulates desires that become in time a kind of volatile waste, which can't be contained.

渴望的心聚集欲望,假以时日便成了,会挥发不能抑制的废物。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It was a complete waste of time, unless the goal in life was simply to pester the user for some input.

刚才的时间就完全浪费了，除非那个唯一的目的,是简单地纠缠用户索要一些输入。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

So, I'm not going to waste your time by asking what happens if you put it in.

我不会问你们把式子带进去以后怎么算,这完全是浪费时间

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The president will waste no time in Japan, getting to work almost immediately after Air Force One touches down at a Tokyo airport.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

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

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