squandering

1. VERB 浪费，挥霍(金钱、资源、机遇等)
   If you squander money, 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。

1. Now, the mountain view, California-based giant is intent on not squandering its lead.
   现在，谷歌这个位于加州山景城的科技巨头又在不遗余力地强化其领先地位。
2. However, it serves as a call to action for Malaysians in general and the government to reshape the country and stop squandering its luck and enormous potential.
   不过，这种监督吹响了一个号角，号召马来西亚全体国民和政府采取行动，重塑国家形象，不再挥霍国家的运气和巨大潜力。
3. By creating many of their artifacts according to this principle, they avoided squandering time and attention on documentation that wasn't necessary for delivering a stable, well-tested product.
   通过根据这个原则建立许多工件，他们避免了为交付一个稳定、测试良好的产品而在不必要的文档上浪费很多时间和精力的情况。
4. The First World War represented a terrifying waste of youth and potential, a cruel squandering of the positive forces of our planet.
   第一次世界大战是对青春和潜能的巨大浪费，是对地球上正面能量的残忍挥霍。
5. 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。
6. He was on his way home from drinking, gambling, or some combination thereof, squandering money that we could have used and wasting time that we desperately needed.
   他要么刚刚喝完酒回来，或赌了几把，要么两者皆有。他挥霍着我们本可以用于日常开销的血汗钱，还浪费了我们迫切需要的时间&和父亲在一起的时间。
7. 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。
8. It says better education levels without employment opportunities and a greater voice for women is squandering a valuable asset.
   报告说，提高妇女教育水平却不给她们就业机会和更大的话语权，这是在浪费一项宝贵的财富。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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；
12. Prodigious squandering ( usually by a government).
    巨大的浪费（通常是指政府）。
13. In squandering the health of its young, the world squanders its tomorrows.
    年轻人在挥霍自己健康的同时世界也在浪费着他的未来。
14. 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？
15. 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。
16. Disorder of money are always reasons for spending money, you do not have to mind their own business, because the money is not squandering of you.
    乱化钱的人总有乱花钱的理由，你不用去多管闲事，因为乱花的那些钱不是化你的。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. People always link the bureaucracy with the red tapes, squandering, procrastination and formalism.
    人们常常将官僚制与繁文缛节、浪费、拖延、形式主义联系起来。
21. 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。
22. Worse, we think those who pursue art and have no condo to show for it are squandering their lives.
    更糟糕的是，一些人认为有志于艺术工作，因而没有能力拥有共管公寓的人，简直是在浪费生命。
23. The heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes-Edith Wharton; reckless squandering of public funds.
    习惯于拥有大量财产的人们的轻率、慷慨和时不时的奢侈&伊迪斯·沃顿。
24. 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。
25. He's squandering the goodwill of his audience with tired.
    他用他那些烦人的二流戏法。
26. 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。
27. Even some government officials had started saying it was inappropriate for a senior official to be seen to be squandering taxpayers 'money at a time when Japanese citizens were being asked to consider paying higher taxes.
    甚至一些官员也开始表示，在政府要求国民考虑缴纳更多税赋的时候，一位政府高官却被视为正在浪费纳税人的钱，这显然不妥。
28. Squandering this legacy would be foolish.
    恣意挥霍这种宝贵遗产是愚蠢的行为。
29. This squandering of resources could be reduced as study says by improving high harvesting techniques.
    研究报告表明，通过提高收割技术可以减少粮食的浪费。

noun

1. spending resources lavishly and wastefully
   1. more wasteful than the squandering of time