squandered

英 [ˈskwɒndəd]

美 [ˈskwɑːndərd]

v.  浪费，挥霍(金钱、时间等)
squander的过去分词和过去式

过去式：squandered　

COCA.37191

柯林斯词典

• VERB 浪费，挥霍(金钱、资源、机遇等)
  If yousquandermoney, resources, or opportunities, you waste them.
  1. Hooker didn't squander his money on flashy cars or other vices...
     胡克没有将自己的钱浪费在豪华轿车或其他恶习上。
  2. He had squandered his chances to win.
     他白白浪费了获胜的机会。

英英释义

adj

• not used to good advantage
  1. squandered money cannot be replaced
  2. a wasted effort
  Synonym:wasted

双语例句

• But at the same time, time squandered is a waste.
  但是，同时，花大量的过多的时间却也是一种铺张浪费。
• All the while, as the IMF rightly warns, other opportunities are being squandered.
  一直以来，正如imf所警告的那样，其它机会都被浪费了。
• She squandered millions on a life of make-believe.
  她为一种虚幻的生活挥金如土。
• In anytime has squandered a big half day.
  平平无奇地已经挥霍了大半天。
• Squandered, leaving only a life of regret;
  挥霍了，只留得一生遗憾；
• He took the ivory back to Benares, sold it, and squandered the money as before.
  他带着象牙回到贝拿勒斯，卖掉象牙，然后如前一样大肆挥霍。
• The Clinton Administration left behind a surplus, but this Administration squandered it.
  克林顿政府留下的财政盈余已被本届政府挥霍殆尽。
• One opportunity after another has been squandered most recently in the failure promptly to pass a proper jobs bill.
  一个又一个机会被浪费掉最近的一个例子是，一项合理的就业法案未能获得通过。
• Pension money was squandered in the past on things like building holiday resorts in preposterous but politically important places.
  过去，养老金被挥霍在一些诸如在不合理却有政治意义的地点建设度假村的事情上。
• First the opportunity to sell out to Microsoft for$ 48bn was squandered.
  最初，该公司浪费了以480亿美元出售给微软（Microsoft）的机会。