随着时间慢慢变得更瘦、更虚弱，或越来越没有影响力。
慢慢变得虚弱、消瘦，常常是因为生病或吃不够。
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逐渐变得更瘦更虚弱，尤指因为生病或缺少食物。
"After months in hospital, he had wasted away to almost nothing."
He just lay in bed and wasted away.
— General idiomatic usage; widely attested in literary fiction (e.g., Charles Dickens, various works)
虚度人生或时间，让自己的才能或潜力白白浪费。
"She felt like she was wasting away in a job that didn't challenge her."
用于短语 wasting away，表示某种抽象事物在逐渐恶化。
"Without investment, the once-great city was wasting away."
waste（被消耗、减少）并消失——某物被一点点耗尽并消失的形象很能表达这个意思。
慢慢变得虚弱、消瘦，常常是因为生病或吃不够。
最常用来表示因疾病、饥饿或悲伤而导致的身体衰弱。也可用于比喻，表示才能或机会等抽象事物的衰退。英式和美式英语中都很常见。
母语者最常搭配使用的单词。
最常用的五种时态形式。
来自 YouTube 真实视频中 "waste away" 的用法片段 — 点击可在 Looplines 上观看。
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