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

• If you suppress your emotions and try to drive them out of your life, or if you magnify them and allow them to take over everything, then you're squandering one of life's most precious resources.
  如果你抑制你的情绪并想把它们从生活中驱走，或者如果你将其放大并任其掌握一切，那么你正在浪费生命中最宝贵的资源。
• 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。
• I have used up all my energy. some showed no concern for the interests of the masses, squandering manpower and material resources at will;
  我耗尽了全部的精力。有的部分对群众利益毫不关心，而尽情地耗费人力和物力；
• Imbued with the resentful narrative of a century of national humiliation, they felt the prospect of the US squandering Chinese wealth was an indignity too far.
  百年国耻这一充满愤怒的说法深入他们的内心，他们一想到美国有可能挥霍中国的财富就倍感侮辱。
• Prodigious squandering ( usually by a government).
  巨大的浪费（通常是指政府）。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？