昆虫只占很小的空间，也不会造成很多的浪费。

Insects take up little space and don't make much waste.

youdao

投资高效工厂能节余很多宝贵的碳信用额度，可以用来卖给那些更富有、更浪费的国家。

By investing in efficient plant it could generate lots of valuable carbon credits to sell to wealthier, more wasteful nations.

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他们或许真的给了我很多零用钱，但我开始觉得我是在浪费我的时间和他们的金钱。

Perhaps they give me really a generous allowance, but I am beginning to feel that I'm wasting my time and their money.

youdao

It's definitely an opportunity for help, but particularly, as an opportunity to work with someone for just a few moments to help get you unstuck or to get you past some stumbling block that, otherwise, if you struggled with on your own, you might sink or waste even multiple hours on just something that you're not seeing.

这是一个寻求帮助的机会，特别是，作为一个与某人一起工作的机会,他们能帮助你解决问题,或帮助你越过绊脚石，否则，如果你自己单独奋斗，你可能,浪费很多时间在,你不了解的东西上。

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There are probably those of you in the class already who are outraged by things like the modern food environment, how much energy it takes to transport things from place to place, lack of concern with sustainability and issues like this, and you'd like to see social change.

在坐的各位当中可能已经有人,对目前的食品环境感到愤怒,很多能量浪费在食品相关的运输上,忽略了对可持续性的关心等问题,你可能希望社会会有所改变

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