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

• 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。
• Strictly speaking, this is twice as wasteful, as you are not just squandering your own time but also that of the person you are talking to.
  严格的说，聊天从浪费上来说，浪费的是两倍时间，不仅把自己时间耗掉了，还耽误了对方的时间。
• He gave no acknowledgement of his portion of guilt for the squandering of lives.
  他不承认自己在草菅人命方面的那份罪责。
• 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。
• 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。
• Worse, we think those who pursue art and have no condo to show for it are squandering their lives.
  更糟糕的是，一些人认为有志于艺术工作，因而没有能力拥有共管公寓的人，简直是在浪费生命。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。