Usage examples of "waste time" in English with translation to Spanish

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Young people are apt to waste time. La gente joven puede perder el tiempo.

Let's hurry so as not to waste time. Vayamos deprisa para no perder el tiempo.

There are people who just want to interrupt and waste your time. Hay gente que lo único que quieren es interrumpir y hacerte perder el tiempo.

Though he is young, he never wastes time. Aunque sea joven, él nunca pierde el tiempo.

Stop wasting time and get back to work. Para de perder el tiempo y vuelve al trabajo.

You're wasting your time. Estás perdiendo el tiempo.

Tom thought Mary was wasting her time. Tom pensaba que Mary estaba perdiendo el tiempo.

I shouldn't have wasted my time reading that. No debería haber perdido el tiempo leyendo eso.

He wasted his time on gambling at the horse races. Él perdía el tiempo apostando en carreras de caballos.

Don't waste time on trifles. No pierdas tiempo en trivialidades.

Tom thought the meeting was a waste of time. Tom pensó que la reunión fue una perdida de tiempo.

Some people consider it a waste of time to study languages such as Klingon, Interlingua and Esperanto. Algunas personas consideran una perdida de tiempo estudiar idiomas tales como Klingon, Interlingua, y Esperanto.

Don't waste my time. No malgastes mi tiempo.

Don't waste your time on trifles. No malgastes tu tiempo en pequeñeces.

You should not waste your time. No deberías desperdiciar tu tiempo.

Life being very short, you ought not to waste your time. La vida es muy corta, no deberías desperdiciar tu tiempo.

We waste a lot of time. Malgastamos mucho tiempo.

Tom doesn't have much time to waste. Tom no tiene mucho tiempo que perder.

Tom had no time to waste. Tom no tenía tiempo que perder.

There's no time to waste. No hay que perder tiempo.

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