He must have thought Jane was worth it or he wouldn't have wasted time on her, I suppose.

我想，他当时肯定认为简值得他费心思，否则他就不会在她身上浪费时间了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I have wasted time, and now the time wastes me.

我荒废了时间， 而今时间也荒废了我。

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Wasted time is a drag on American's economic and-private lives, not to mention infuriating.

浪费了的时间拖累了美国人民的经济生活和私人生活，更不必说还令人愤怒了。

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Grant wasted no time. He quickly sent troops to fight the Confederate force blocking the Tennessee River.

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I wasted your time here.

我不好意思浪费了你们时间。

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Soil was being eroded and wasted along the Eastern seaboard, and they were using up the great soils of the Mississippi Valley and over time that slave system just somehow wasn't going to work out.

东部沿海地区的土地因被侵蚀而荒废掉,密西西比河谷地区的土地资源即将被耗尽,但就在这种情况下,奴隶制依然能维持南方的经济

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In basic science, misconduct can lead to wasted time and money pursuing false leads.

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In this respect, the NFL accurately represents the wasted time in the typical large hierarchical bureaucracy.

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Even when a business, breaking the pattern, attaches a value to its customers' wasted time, it's chintzy.

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