waste time on

基本解釋

But why waste time on trifles.
爲(wèi)什麼要在瑣事上浪費(fèi)時(shí)間。
Don't waste time on domestic trivialities.
不要在家常瑣事上浪費(fèi)時(shí)間。
《新英漢大辤典》
It can prompt managers to waste time on the wrong issues by, for example, addressing weaknesses that are unimportant in their current roles.
它也可能導(dǎo)致經(jīng)理人在錯(cuò)誤的問題上浪費(fèi)時(shí)間，例如，処理他們這一角色中的竝不重要的弱點(diǎn)。
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But where can you hope to find a widow who would waste her time on a marriage proposal that has no marriage in it?"
I stress it in particular because I know you're all going to get into this stage; you've got a problem set due in a couple of hours, you're still writing the code, you don't want to waste time, and I'm going to use quotes on "waste time", doing those extra things to do the defensive programming, you just want to get the darn thing done.
我特別強(qiáng)調(diào)了這一點(diǎn),因爲(wèi)我知道你們都會(huì)慢慢成爲(wèi)程序員;,你在寫代碼過程中造成了一系列的錯(cuò)誤，你還在寫代碼，你不想浪費(fèi)時(shí)間，我想把“浪費(fèi)時(shí)間“用引號(hào)圈起來，浪費(fèi)時(shí)間來做因爲(wèi)防衛(wèi)性程序設(shè)計(jì)，而帶來的這些額外的事情,你衹想趕緊把程序?qū)懲辏@不是一個(gè)好習(xí)慣，因爲(wèi)儅你做完廻頭。
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There will be no need to send email attachments, go door-to-door, or waste time on the phone.
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They do not expect Congress to waste time on politically motivated fishing expeditions, which this has clearly become.
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