squander
squander 英 [ˈskwɒndə(r)] 美 [ˈskwɑndə(r)]
v. 浪费，挥霍
进行时:squandering 过去式:squandered 过去分词:squandered 第三人称单数:squanders
- To squander means to spend extravagantly, thoughtlessly, or wastefully. If you need to save for college, don't squander your income on nightly sushi dinners.
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- v. 浪费，挥霍
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1. Then do not squander time,
那么就不要浪费时间，
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2. He squandered all his money on gambling.
他把自己所有的钱都糟蹋在赌博上了。
- squander (v.) 1580s (implied in squandering), "to spend recklessly or prodigiously," of unknown origin; Shakespeare used it in "Merchant of Venice" (1593) with a sense of "to be scattered over a wide area." Squander-bug, a British symbol of reckless extravagance and waste during war-time shortages, represented as a devilish insect, was introduced 1943. In U.S., Louis Ludlow coined squanderlust (1935) for the tendency of government bureaucracies to spend much money.
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