| 词汇 | squander |
| 释义 | squander verb[ T ] uk /ˈskwɒn.dər/ us /ˈskwɑːn.dɚ/ C2 to waste money or supplies, or to waste opportunities by not using them to your advantage: 浪费，挥霍（金钱或补给品）;糟蹋（机会） They'll quite happily squander a whole year's savings on two weeks in the sun.他们会心甘情愿地把全年的积蓄花掉，度两个星期的阳光假期。 Ireland squandered several chances, including a penalty that cost them the game.爱尔兰队错失了几次机会，包括导致他们输掉比赛的一次点球。 Wasting boondoggle dissipate dissipation down the drainidiom flabbily piss piss something away prodigal prodigality prodigally profligacy spendthrift throw good money after badidiom throw something away toss toss something away uneconomic unthrifty wastage wasted squander | American Dictionarysquander verb[ T ] us/ˈskwɑn·dər/ to waste money, or to use something valuable that you have a limited amount of in a bad or foolish way: Government should not squander the taxpayers’ money. Don’t squander your opportunities when you are young. squander | Business Englishsquander verb[ T ] disapprovinguk /ˈskwɒndər/us to waste large amounts of money or other resources: Fifty-five percent of likely voters are convinced that much of the state's tax money is being squandered. squander sth on sthPoliticians are accused of squandering more than $1 billion on misguided and futile programs aimed at stimulating the economy. squander a chance/an opportunity to fail to use a chance to become successful or to achieve something: According to one member of the board of directors: "We have squandered the opportunity to become a major player in the industry". Examples of squandersquander His mind was exerted to the utmost at every moment, squandering all his energy. The papermaker who employed four vats lost one hundred production days per year, and squandered cartloads of coal warming the pulp in idle vessels. Meanwhile, he lived ' an idle and profligate life never working at his business ', and squandering away their money. Precious foreign currency needed for raw materials purchases could not be squandered on debt servicing. In hindsight, a good deal of science appears to squander resourses. To squander three of them by introducing four blocks could be quite wrong. Several major opportunities to cross-reference information were squandered during the production of this encyclopaedia and that means its value as a research tool is limited. Landlords had the means, but they preferred to purchase land for non-economic purposes and/or to squander their money in other pursuits. She squandered her earnings with the most reckless profusion, and quarrelled with her best friends from the ungovernable petulance of her temper. You can save, waste, squander it or use time badly or just use it up, so that you run out of it ('have none left'). The old were provided for within the family, and the law made sure that family land could not be squandered. Money that could be paid as tax was squandered in these canteens. The drinker squanders not only his wealth, but also his honor. This is the logic of dissipation of the wine poem, which symbolically squanders the moral wealth of the self-integrated man. So why squander the opportunity of your celebrity? These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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