Unfortunately, many do not utilize their true potential, and lay it to waste by engaging in tasks that are a poor use of their time and energy.

不幸地是，许多人无法发挥所有的潜能，还把发挥的潜能放在一些浪费时间精力的工作上。

youdao

Have you not heard how I decreed it long ago, how I planned from days of old what now I have brought to pass? Your ordained role was to lay waste fortified cities, to turn them into ruinous heaps.

难道你没有听说吗？很久以前我所计划的，昔日我所决定的，现在我就在实现，叫你毁坏坚城，化为废墟。

youdao

Unfortunately, many do not utilize their true potential, and lay it to waste by engaging in tasks that are a poor use of their time and energy.

更不幸的是，很多人都没有使用自己的真正价值，只把时间精力花费在不值得的任务上。以下是10种定会让你的真实潜能无法挥发出来的方式。

youdao

Indeed, not only is it impossible to prevent such flooding, but doing so would lay waste some of the benefits of becoming temporarily waterlogged.

ECONOMIST: Deforestation and floods