If he has any expectations it is due to the fact that I have never wasted money, and I do not propose to begin to do so now. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
Pleasure not known beforehand is half wasted; to anticipate it is to double it. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
Her half-brother had now ample means again, but what with debts and what with new madness wasted them most fearfully again. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
The man was beset by friends who told him he was mad to continue the chase, and that his undoubted talents in other lines were being wasted. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
And when Miss Caroline entered she was encountered in the middle of the chamber by a tall, thin, wasted figure, who took both her hands. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Look upon this damosel; note her wasted form, her halting step, her bloomless cheeks where youth should blush and happiness exult in smiles! 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Yet in some ways I feel that yesterday has not been wasted. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
Mr. Luker wasted no more words on him. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Our inspection was not wasted. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
It struck me that his hand looked wasted like his face. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
Your time in Cambridge will certainly be wasted. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains were wasted. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
Going up into the hall, there I found the Colonel, wasted, and worn, and old, and shabby, and as wild and as wicked as ever. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
There was not a moment to be wasted on the purely speculative question of Betteredge's conscience. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Genius is too great an asset to be wasted or misapplied. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Under such circumstances the water is said to be hard, and soap used with it is wasted. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
There was beauty still in his pale, wasted features; there was earnestness and a sort of sweetness--for he was smiling--in his hollow eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, and its pillow was wet with wasted tears. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
They shan't be wasted,' continued Smangle, turning to Mr. Pickwick. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
Time, a very little time, I tell him, will do everything;Marianne's heart is not to be wasted for ever on such a man as Willoughby. 简·奥斯汀.理智与情感.
This energy may be wasted, going aside from the point; it may also go against the successful performance of an act. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
But, if this inquiry is to go on, time is of too much importance to be wasted in writing. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
The tons of sentiment I have wasted on that unprincipled humbug in my ignorance! 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
They drop also many eggs on the bare ground, which are thus wasted. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
I cannot enjoy delicacies; good things are wasted upon me. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
The whole thing is too problematic; I cannot consent to be the cause of your goodness being wasted. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
The effervescence of boys on the street, wasted and perverted through neglect or persecution, was drained and applied to fine uses. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Those soft blue eyes, and all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the inferior society of Highbury and its connexions. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
He wasted thirty-one kings also. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:--Day its fervid fires had wasted, and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.