squander

英 ['skwɒndə] 美 ['skwɑndɚ]

解释

※ 提供单词"squander"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

squander 挥霍，浪费

词源不详，可能来自拟声词根 squ-,挤，压，模仿挤压湿物体时发出的吧唧声。比较 splurge, 挥霍，浪费。

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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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. Don't squander your time in reading those dime novels.: 不要把你的时间浪费在读那些胡编乱造的廉价小说上.

3. Naturally , hardly anyone could afford to squander so much time every day.: 几乎没有一个人能天天如此虚度光阴.

4. If we squander our fossil fuels, we threaten civilization.: 如果我们浪费矿物燃料, 我们就威胁文明.