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。
• 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 see all this potential, and I see squandering.
  我看见了你们所有的潜力，都被浪费了。
• Working together we can strive to overcome barriers to inward investment without undermining the rights of workers or squandering precious environmental resources.
  齐心协力，我们便能攻克对内投资的壁垒而不至于损害工人的权利或浪费宝贵的环境资源。
• Disorder of money are always reasons for spending money, you do not have to mind their own business, because the money is not squandering of you.
  乱化钱的人总有乱花钱的理由，你不用去多管闲事，因为乱花的那些钱不是化你的。
• I worry that such a bank would be run by civil servants who would make lending decisions based on political grounds and end up squandering taxpayers 'money by backing the wrong entrepreneurs.
  我担心的是，这样一家银行会由公务员来管理，他们将从政治理由出发做出贷款决策，最终会因为支持错误的企业主而浪费纳税人的钱。
• Squandering this legacy would be foolish.
  恣意挥霍这种宝贵遗产是愚蠢的行为。
• The First World War represented a terrifying waste of youth and potential, a cruel squandering of the positive forces of our planet.
  第一次世界大战是对青春和潜能的巨大浪费，是对地球上正面能量的残忍挥霍。
• 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。
• 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？