Haste是“匆忙”，waste是“浪费”。这个短语正如它的字面解释一目了然，请看对话：

    A: Why did it take you so long to write the report?

    B: I’m always careful with my work. After all, haste makes waste.

    Note: This idiom means that if you try to do something quickly, without planning it, you’re likely to end up spending more time, money, etc., doing it. The idea that haste is counterproductive originated in antiquity and the idiom was first seen in print in the apocryphal “Book of Wisdom” (about 190 B.C.): There is one that toilet and laboureth, and maketh haste, and is so much the more behind. A similar saying is “more haste, less speed.”