waste away

英 [weɪst əˈweɪ]

美 [weɪst əˈweɪ]

变消瘦; 变衰弱

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 变消瘦;变衰弱
  If someonewastes away, they become extremely thin or weak because they are ill or worried and they are not eating properly.
  1. Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.
     因患癌症濒临死亡的人会日渐消瘦，而且身体明显衰弱。

双语例句

• Make good use of every second: please start a self-promise from today on, do not waste away precious time and contribute ur inner efforts on things that mean much to u.
  善用分分秒秒：请从今天开始自我约定，不要虚掷宝贵的时间，把心力集中在对自己很重要的事情上。
• PLAYBACK is also reducing landfill waste and doing away with the need for extra cotton growth, which means massive amounts of land and water are saved.
  PLAYBACK也减少填埋垃圾及棉花消费的额外增长，这意味着土地和水资源的大量需求得以保护。
• The time and energy people waste pumping away at their arms should be spent on developing the major muscle groups.
  许多人浪费时间与力气在练他们的手臂，而他们应该要多花点时间在练他们的主要肌群上。
• Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.
  因患癌症濒临死亡的人会日渐消瘦，而且身体明显衰弱。
• The waste is safely locked away until it is no longer radioactive
  废料被安全储存起来，直到其不再有辐射性。
• The gas clean system adopts spraying cooling round water, effectively to resolve the waste water drain away.
  产生的煤气冷却净化系统，采用系统内水循环工艺，有效地解决了污水排放问题；
• The waste water is piped away to a special place.
  废水通过管道排往特定的地点。
• I do n't want to stay in Beijing and I do n't want to go to the western hills. I'm going to take the train southward where no one knows me and waste away what's left of my life.
  但是我不愿留在北京，西山更不愿去了，我决计搭车南下，在无人认识的地方，浪费我生命的余剩；
• An important feature of the 1984 amendments is that they shifted the focus of hazardous waste management away from land disposal to treatment alternatives.
  1984年修正案的重要特点是，他们把危险废物管理的中心从土壤处理转移到用机器处理。
• FLUID WASTE TREATMENT& DISPOSAL EQUIPMENT waste matter carried away in sewers or drains.
  废（污）水处理和排放设备下水道或排水沟排出的液体废物。