| 词汇 | squandered |
| 释义 | squandered past simple and past participle ofsquander 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 misspend piss piss something away prodigal prodigality prodigally profligacy spendthrift squander throw good money after badidiom throw something away toss toss something away uneconomic unthrifty Examples of squanderedsquandered In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The papermaker who employed four vats lost one hundred production days per year, and squandered cartloads of coal warming the pulp in idle vessels. Precious foreign currency needed for raw materials purchases could not be squandered on debt servicing. 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. She squandered her earnings with the most reckless profusion, and quarrelled with her best friends from the ungovernable petulance of her temper. 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. In addition to emotional excess, the poet glorifies in the prodigious amounts of wealth and time squandered for the sake of wine. The latter were already condemned in 1739 as morally corrupt, vain petty potentates who squandered what little credit and resources they possessed on indigent luxury. Those who squandered loans on ill-advised projects and corruption will feel vindicated. Free trade offered a chance to relax pressure on the environment and open the countryside to everybody but the opportunity was squandered by cashing in on blood sports. I had squandered a splendid opportunity. On a number of occasions, it took up to two hours to locate a doctor to prescribe analgesia, with considerable time squandered as all parties 'cross-communicated' to achieve adequate prescriptions. This freedom to choose seemed such a precious gift, an opportunity to involve one's inner purposes in a life's work, a gift that must not be squandered. The return might be uncertain, but it should not be unreasonable, and capital ought not to be squandered on commercial enterprises that promise mainly non-commercial gains. Many of the thugs, however, seem to have squandered the money and the shares they had to pay the zamindars kept them in a circle of debt. 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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