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

• 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。
• He's squandering the goodwill of his audience with tired.
  他用他那些烦人的二流戏法。
• 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？
• 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。
• I am not the casual person, but casually gets up is not the person. You're faced with ending it all, of squandering what was given.
  我不是随便的人，但随便起来就不是人。把到手的东西就这样随随便便弄掉。
• The central and state governments have kicked off a number of flagship projects but are in danger of squandering the benefits through a lack of planning and co-ordination.
  中央及州政府启动了一系列的旗舰工程，但由于缺少规划跟协调合作，这些项目带来的好处可能会大打折扣。
• They denounced the government for its reckless squandering of public funds.
  他们指责政府胡乱挥霍公共基金。
• 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。
• 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。