squandering

英 [ˈskwɒndərɪŋ]

美 [ˈskwɑːndərɪŋ]

v.  浪费，挥霍(金钱、时间等)
squander的现在分词

现在分词：squandering　

BNC.44431 / COCA.39635

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

noun

• spending resources lavishly and wastefully
  1. more wasteful than the squandering of time

双语例句

• In squandering the health of its young, the world squanders its tomorrows.
  年轻人在挥霍自己健康的同时世界也在浪费着他的未来。
• By creating many of their artifacts according to this principle, they avoided squandering time and attention on documentation that wasn't necessary for delivering a stable, well-tested product.
  通过根据这个原则建立许多工件，他们避免了为交付一个稳定、测试良好的产品而在不必要的文档上浪费很多时间和精力的情况。
• The heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes-Edith Wharton; reckless squandering of public funds.
  习惯于拥有大量财产的人们的轻率、慷慨和时不时的奢侈&伊迪斯·沃顿。
• He was on his way home from drinking, gambling, or some combination thereof, squandering money that we could have used and wasting time that we desperately needed.
  他要么刚刚喝完酒回来，或赌了几把，要么两者皆有。他挥霍着我们本可以用于日常开销的血汗钱，还浪费了我们迫切需要的时间&和父亲在一起的时间。
• Worse, we think those who pursue art and have no condo to show for it are squandering their lives.
  更糟糕的是，一些人认为有志于艺术工作，因而没有能力拥有共管公寓的人，简直是在浪费生命。
• It says better education levels without employment opportunities and a greater voice for women is squandering a valuable asset.
  报告说，提高妇女教育水平却不给她们就业机会和更大的话语权，这是在浪费一项宝贵的财富。
• Even some government officials had started saying it was inappropriate for a senior official to be seen to be squandering taxpayers 'money at a time when Japanese citizens were being asked to consider paying higher taxes.
  甚至一些官员也开始表示，在政府要求国民考虑缴纳更多税赋的时候，一位政府高官却被视为正在浪费纳税人的钱，这显然不妥。
• I have used up all my energy. some showed no concern for the interests of the masses, squandering manpower and material resources at will;
  我耗尽了全部的精力。有的部分对群众利益毫不关心，而尽情地耗费人力和物力；
• He gave no acknowledgement of his portion of guilt for the squandering of lives.
  他不承认自己在草菅人命方面的那份罪责。
• But are we not squandering our future by relinquishing sweeping responsibility to the state?
  但是，如果把责任一股脑地推到政府身上，难道我们不是在挥霍未来吗？