Wasting food means losing not only life-supporting nutrition but also precious resources, including land, water and energy.

浪费食物不仅意味着失去维持生命的营养，还意味着失去宝贵的资源，包括土地、水和能源。

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Rather than maintaining the now redundant leaves throughout the winter, the tree saves its precious resources and discards them.

这棵树并没有在整个冬天都保留现在多余的叶子，而是储存了宝贵的资源并抛弃了多余的树叶。

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Either way, you will spend a ton of precious resources.

无论哪种方式，你都要花费大量宝贵的资源。

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We have strengthened our investment in our most precious resources - the air we breathe, the water we drink, the parks and public spaces we enjoy."

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

The first of these is limited in supply and the other two consume precious resources, like crude oil, indirectly.

FORBES: Environmentalist, Spare That Tree

Now America is just one country among many competing for these precious resources.

FORBES: Wriston's Law Still Holds

Disputes over control of hard currency revenue streams and precious resources like oil, gas, gold, diamonds, platinum must be expected.

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