go to waste

基本解釋

Not a bit of it will go to waste.
這頭馴鹿一點也不會浪費掉。
I’ve spent a lot of time and energy, and I hate to see it all go to waste??.
我在這上面花費了大量的時間和精力，我可不希望看到這一切努力都白費了。
JUST after Barack Obama was elected president, his incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, told a conference of American captains of industry, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
就在奧巴馬剛剛當(dāng)選總統(tǒng)之時，其新任辦公廳主任在一次會議上對美國的實業(yè)巨頭們說“人們不該浪費掉任何一次嚴(yán)重的危機”。

Using it could make the most sense in areas where farmers grow lots of rice and the hulls might just go to waste.
The ones who would conserve energy, that is they were sedentary when possible, other then when they had to go get food would again not waste their calories but would save them and contribute to the gene pool.
那些保存能量的人,那些能躺不坐,能坐不站的人,除非必須再次尋找食物,否則是絕對不會浪費能量的人,也是對基因庫有貢獻的
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But countless chicken feathers go to waste.

Furthermore, the insights gleaned from the the Google investigation will not go to waste.
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