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

• State institutions that invested in sinking foreign banks have faced public outrage for squandering national resources.
  投资了日渐衰败的外国银行的国家机构，因浪费国家资源而面临着公众愤怒。
• By creating many of their artifacts according to this principle, they avoided squandering time and attention on documentation that wasn't necessary for delivering a stable, well-tested product.
  通过根据这个原则建立许多工件，他们避免了为交付一个稳定、测试良好的产品而在不必要的文档上浪费很多时间和精力的情况。
• 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。
• It says better education levels without employment opportunities and a greater voice for women is squandering a valuable asset.
  报告说，提高妇女教育水平却不给她们就业机会和更大的话语权，这是在浪费一项宝贵的财富。
• Squandering this legacy would be foolish.
  恣意挥霍这种宝贵遗产是愚蠢的行为。
• Prodigious squandering ( usually by a government).
  巨大的浪费（通常是指政府）。
• 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。
• 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？
• The heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes-Edith Wharton; reckless squandering of public funds.
  习惯于拥有大量财产的人们的轻率、慷慨和时不时的奢侈&伊迪斯·沃顿。
• People always link the bureaucracy with the red tapes, squandering, procrastination and formalism.
  人们常常将官僚制与繁文缛节、浪费、拖延、形式主义联系起来。