If you didn't have to review every idea 5-10 times before learning it, then a creative approach would probably save you time, rather than waste it.

如果你在学习之前，不必每天都回顾上5 - 10遍，那么创造性的方法可以省下你的时间，而不是浪费掉。

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Rather than consigning an old computer to the e-waste scrap heap, give it a new, inexpensive hard disk—or just boot from a CD or a USB flash drive (UFD)—and re-purpose the computer as a thin client.

不必将旧的计算机扔到到电子污染废品站，而是为它提供全新的、便宜的硬盘 — 或从 CD 或 USB flash 驱动（UFD）启动 — 并将计算机重新配置为瘦客户机。

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They feel that if they can quickly discover what they want to do, they can get started on it right away, rather than waste time doing seemingly unrelated things.

他们觉得如果能够很快发现该做什么，那么就能很快着手做，就不会浪费时间在不相干的事情上了。

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Rather than just a waste of money, it could do real harm.

FORBES: I Just Renewed My CFP Designation, And They Oppose FINRA Oversight Of CFP Advisors

Too much red-tape and compliance is a waste of money and it usually leads to fewer loans rather than more.

FORBES: With Warts, Fin Reg Passes House And Heads To Senate

The PAC, founded by W E Gladstone, is charged with investigating the value for money the taxpayer gets from Government spending (rather than the merits of the actual policy), and she is pushing it into wider investigations of waste.

BBC: A Year On Part 2: The old lags flourishing in Commons