squander的意思

squander

英式音标['skwɑndɚ]
美式英标['skwɒndə]

基本解释

vt. 浪费

vi. 浪费；漂泊

n. 浪费

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.

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.