| 词汇 | squandering |
| 释义 | squandering present 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 squanderingsquandering In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. His mind was exerted to the utmost at every moment, squandering all his energy. Meanwhile, he lived ' an idle and profligate life never working at his business ', and squandering away their money. They were packed with taverns and liquor stores that invited drinking and gambling and the squandering of wages. We change for the sake of change, obliterating what was there before, often without finding out what or why it was, and squandering the planet's resources along the way. She objected when he took to squandering the money that he received, returning home once he had run out of cash to be re-supplied by her. We find incisive views on social phenomena, such as criticism of reckless youth squandering a fortune, the seamy side of the city's nightlife or social inequality. The councillor would be surcharged for seemingly squandering that money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In any case, it has displayed the failure of ten years of diplomacy and highlighted the oversights, the shortcomings and the squanderings, of international co-operation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Worst of all, they have billions of oil revenue that they are squandering on financing mass unemployment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 While we are squandering our national strength on confrontation between labour and management, they have no adversarial industrial relations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It helped to keep him out of the pub and from squandering time and money in the betting shop—money which he could not afford. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It must not be based, as at present, on greed and the squandering of wealth by multinational companies and international banks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But there is an opportunity to regain some of the credit we have lost through squandering the capital of the success of our referendum. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would be squandering that very expensive experience if we did not use it in the advisory committee that is to be set up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, we protest against this slipshod method, this squandering of the public money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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