1·He ruminated on the terrible wastefulness that typified American life.
他认真思考了美国生活中典型且非常严重的浪费问题。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·This wastefulness can undermine the health system as a whole by draining funds needed for other essential services.
这种浪费消耗掉了其他基本服务所需要的资金，可能对整个卫生系统带来损害。
3·Acknowledging the chaos and wastefulness of typical consumerist living can help you see not only the way it affects you personally, but the impact it has on your community, the world you inhabit.
若是能够意识到信奉消费主义所带来的混乱和浪费，你就能够更清楚看到它是如何影响你自身，甚至包括你所栖居的社区以及世界。
4·The Stern report comes on the heels of a huge wave of alarming reports coming out in the UK recently-along with news berating Britons for the wastefulness of nearly everything they do and buy.
斯特恩报告是在各界此起彼伏的对英国人日常生活造成大量浪费的批评报告的浪潮中应时而生的。
5·It is this terrible wastefulness that has got us into the mess we are in now.
正是这可怕的浪费使我们陷入了目前的困境。