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单词 squander
释义
squander
verb[T]
uk
/ˈskwɒn.dər/us
/ˈskwɑːn.dɚ/
C2
towastemoneyorsupplies, or towasteopportunitiesby not using them toyouradvantage:
浪费，挥霍（金钱或补给品）；糟蹋（机会）
They'llquitehappilysquander awholeyear'ssavingson twoweeksin thesun.他们会心甘情愿地把全年的积蓄花掉，度两个星期的阳光假期。
Ireland squandered severalchances,includingapenaltythatcostthem thegame.爱尔兰队错失了几次机会，包括导致他们输掉比赛的一次点球。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Wasting
  • boondoggle
  • dissipate
  • dissipation
  • down the drainidiom
  • fritter
  • piss
  • pisssomethingaway
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  • prodigality
  • prodigally
  • profligacy
  • spendthrift
  • throw good money after badidiom
  • throwsomethingaway
  • toss
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  • uneconomic
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  • waste not, want notidiom
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(Definition ofsquanderfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

squander| American Dictionary

squander
verb[T]
us
/ˈskwɑn·dər/
towastemoney, or to use somethingvaluablethat you have alimitedamountof in abadorfoolishway:
Government should not squander thetaxpayers’money.
Don’t squanderyouropportunitieswhen you areyoung.
(Definition ofsquanderfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

squander| Business English

squander
verb[T]
disapproving
uk
/ˈskwɒndər/us
towastelargeamountsofmoneyor otherresources:
Fifty-fivepercentoflikelyvotersareconvincedthat much of the state'staxmoneyis being squandered.
squander sth on sthPoliticians areaccusedof squandering more than $1billiononmisguidedandfutileprogramsaimedatstimulatingtheeconomy.
squander a chance/an opportunity
tofailto use achancetobecomesuccessfulor toachievesomething:
According to onememberof theboardofdirectors: "We have squandered theopportunitytobecomeamajorplayerin theindustry".
(Definition ofsquanderfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsquander

squander
His mind was exerted to the utmost at every moment, squandering all his energy.
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The papermaker who employed four vats lost one hundred production days per year, and squandered cartloads of coal warming the pulp in idle vessels.
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In fact, compared to the efficiency (and self-sufficiency) of photosynthesis, much more energy is squandered when one animal consumes another or consumes plant material.
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Meanwhile, he lived ' an idle and profligate life never working at his business ', and squandering away their money.
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Precious foreign currency needed for raw materials purchases could not be squandered on debt servicing.
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In hindsight, a good deal of science appears tosquanderresourses.
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Tosquanderthree of them by introducing four blocks could be quite wrong.
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Several major opportunities to cross-reference information were squandered during the production of this encyclopaedia and that means its value as a research tool is limited.
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Landlords had the means, but they preferred to purchase land for non-economic purposes and/or tosquandertheir money in other pursuits.
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She squandered her earnings with the most reckless profusion, and quarrelled with her best friends from the ungovernable petulance of her temper.
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You can save, waste,squanderit or use time badly or just use it up, so that you run out of it ('have none left').
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The old were provided for within the family, and the law made sure that family land could not be squandered.
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Money that could be paid as tax was squandered in these canteens.
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The drinker squanders not only his wealth, but also his honor.
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This is the logic of dissipation of the wine poem, which symbolically squanders the moral wealth of the self-integrated man.
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