squander

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vt. 浪费, 使分散 vi. 浪费, 漂泊, 四散

发音

UK /ˈskwɒnd.ə/
其它
UK /ˈskwɒn.də/
US /ˈskwɑn.dɚ/
US /ˈskʷɑn.dɚ/

词形变化

squandered squanderest squandereth squandering squanders 三单 squanders squandering 现在分词 squandered 过去式 squandered 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

浪费

动词

浪费；漂泊

释义与例句

v. C1
  1. 1.

    To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.

    浪费

    挥霍

    及物

    1886, Cora Pearl, Memoirs. "I have squandered money enormously.... I ought to have saved, but saving is not easy in such a whirl of excitement as that in which I have lived."

    1746, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

  2. 2.

    To scatter; to disperse.

    废旧 及物
  3. 3.

    To wander at random; to scatter.

    废旧 及物

词汇关系

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同义词 4

blow waste consume ware

上位词 10

use eat drop spend consume exhaust expend deplete eat up run through

下位词 10

drink shoot fool burn shower fling lavish wanton fritter splurge

近义相关 1

blow

词源

Earliest uses (late 16th c.) "to spend recklessly or prodigiously", also "to scatter over a wide area". Of unknown origin. Perhaps a blend of scatter + wander. Compare Danish skvætte (rare)/skvatte (“to splash”) (nominalised: skvæt), Icelandic skvetta (“to squirt”), Swedish skvätta (“to splash”), Norwegian Bokmål skvette.

来源：wiktionary