One way to hold these meanings together: picture something being spent a little at a time, with nobody adding anything back. Each month there is slightly less than there was. On a body, what goes is flesh and strength. On property, what goes is value. The word never tells you the cause, and it never means a sudden drop — it names the slow, one-way direction of travel.

可以想成一樣東西被一點一點花掉,而且沒有人往回補。每過一個月,剩下的就少一點。放在身體上,掉的是肉和力氣。放在資產上,掉的是價值。這個字從來不交代原因。它也不用在突然的崩塌上。它標的是那個慢慢往下、回不去的方向。這也是為什麼它跟 waste(浪費)看起來一樣,感覺卻不同:浪費是人做的選擇,wasting 多半是自己在發生。

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

wastingadj/ˈweɪstɪŋ/

  • 1

    Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.

wastingnoun/ˈweɪstɪŋ/

  • 1

    Gradual deterioration or wasting away.

    • muscular wastings
  • 2

    The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。