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25 Dec 2017
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What is the difference between 浪费 and 耗 ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between 浪费 and 耗 ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
Is 浪费时间 and 耗时间 the same?
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
I think 浪费时间 basically means wasting time.
耗时间has 2 meanings which depend on the context.
One is cost much time, like 花时间
这个项目很耗时间(this project costs a lot of time)
The other, well, hard to explain how:
你都耗在家里一天了!you've been at home for a whole day! Maybe it's because he did nothing and wasted a whole day. Maybe he should have gone out and done some exercise.
耗seems to have a wider range of usages and more of spoken language.
- Simplified Chinese (China)
浪费 比如 开着灯很浪费电,指的是开不开灯都可以,不一定要开灯。 耗 比如 这个机器很耗电,指的是想要让这个机器运转就需要很多电。 总之 浪费是没有必要做的事却做了,能源不一定是需要的。耗是想要运转一件事物就必须需要这些能源。
- Simplified Chinese (China)
no,commonly 浪费时间=waste of time. as for耗时间,sometimes 耗 is a negative word,for example,someone has to take an hour to study Chinese,but he/she isn't interested in Chinese at all,just want to Finnish the class,during the class he/she is 耗时间
举个例子:
1.这节中文课,老师讲得太差了,浪费时间(浪费时间=waste of time)
2.这节中文课我不感兴趣,等待下课的时候,在想中午吃什么,耗时间(maybe 耗时间=dawdle)
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