desperdiciar

to waste

Tu padre creía que yo desperdiciaba mi vida.	Your father thought I had wasted my life.
Esto llevaba mucha mano de obra y desperdiciaba mucho tiempo.	This took a lot of manpower and wasted a lot of time.
Simmons dijo que su disgusto se debía más a que la gente desperdiciaba.	Simmons said his disgust was more about people being wasteful.
Musgos, insectos, algas, crustáceos, y cuando comíamos casi nada se desperdiciaba.	Mosses, bugs, algae, crustaceans, and when we ate almost nothing went to waste.
Yo que usted, no desperdiciaba mi tiempo.	So if I were you, I wouldn't waste my time.
Sabias que desperdiciaba su tiempo.	You knew he was wasting his time.
Mientras desperdiciaba mi vida.	While I wasted my life.
Así no las desperdiciaba.	So I don't waste them.
Santiago no podía comprender por qué se desperdiciaba una oportunidad tan magnífica para proclamar el reino.	James could not understand the reason for throwing away such a magnificent opportunity to proclaim the kingdom.
Tenía un mensaje que difundir, el mensaje de su Padre, y no desperdiciaba las oportunidades.	He had a message to spread, His Father's message, and He did not miss His opportunities.
Esta tecnología reutiliza la energía que ante- riormente se desperdiciaba para generar electricidad de forma más adecuada, lográndose un gran ahorro energético.	This technology reuses energy that was previously wasted in order to better generate electricity, realizing marvelous energy conservation.
En su trabajo anterior, Wall desperdiciaba su valioso tiempo, puesto que dependía de los DVD y las unidades externas para enviar diseños a los clientes.	At his previous job, Wall wasted precious time relying on DVDs and external drives to send designs to clients.
John Welch, el santo y maravilloso predicador escocés, pensaba que desperdiciaba el día si no había pasado de ocho a diez horas en oración.	John Welch, the holy and wonderful Scotch preacher, thought the day ill spent if he did not spend eight or ten hours in prayer.
De esta manera se desperdiciaba el vapor y se perdían aproximadamente 2 megavatios, lo que significaba una pérdida de 2 millones de dólares al año.	That resulted in wasted steam and the loss of approximately two megawatts, which translated to a loss of US$2 million a year.
Hoy, millones de estudiantes están pagando menos por la universidad porque finalmente enfrentamos un sistema que desperdiciaba miles de millones de dólares del contribuyente en bancos y prestamistas.	Millions of students are paying less for college today because we finally took on a system that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on banks and lenders.
Imagínese, ahí estaban luchando por crear todas esas relaciones sociales avanzadas, pero supuestamente el socialismo se desperdiciaba ahí porque todavía usaban letrinas en vez de la alcantarillada moderna.	Here they had all these advanced social relations they were struggling to bring into being, but because they still had outhouses and not modern plumbing, socialism was wasted there, you know.
Lamentablemente, no existen buenas estadísticas o datos concretos y por esa razón, para demostrar mi argumento tuve que hallar primero otra manera de calcular cuánta comida se desperdiciaba.	Unfortunately, empirical data, good, hard stats, don't exist, and therefore to prove my point, I first of all had to find some proxy way of uncovering how much food was being wasted.
John Welch, el santo y maravilloso predicador escocés, pensaba que desperdiciaba el día si no había pasado de ocho a diez horas en oración.	John Welch, the holy and wonderful Scotch preacher, thought the day ill spent if he did not spend eight or ten hours in prayer. He kept a plaid that he might wrap himself when he arose to pray at night.
Posteriormente, cuando el joven sacerdote comenzó con su grupo de hermanos, Rebod se opuso frontalmente al proyec- to, y no desperdiciaba la oportunidad de manifestarlo pública- mente buscando intimidar o desconcertar a su iniciador.	Later, when the young priest started his group of brothers, Rebod was one of the project's most outspoken critics. He rarely missed an opportunity to condemn it publicly or to belittle and embarrass its initiator.
Jake hizo todo lo posible para asegurarse de que ninguno de la larva 'estrella Michelin' se desperdiciaba, e incluso ayudó a cabo Southport Premier Inn ayudando a sí mismo a ocho de sus bollos antes del gran viaje.	Jake did his best to ensure that none of the 'Michelin-starred' grub went to waste, and even helped out Southport Premier Inn by helping himself to eight of their crumpets before the big journey.