v．浪费，挥霍：把（金钱、时间、资源等）用在无意义或无价值的事物上。
squander /ˈskwɒndə/ TEM4 [ squandering squandered squanders ]
及物动词 If you squander money, resources, or opportunities, you waste them. 浪费 (金钱、资源或机会)
Hobbs didn't squander his money on flashy cars or other vices.
霍布斯没有把钱挥霍在奢华汽车或其他恶习上。
...来(Down)极少积存，人生就象一个球，无论如何滚来滚去，总有在一个点上停止的时候；不虞丈夫迷上Dubo，钱被挥霍一空(Squandered)，活也不好好干了。问世间，情是何物，直教生死相许。
... 恣意挥霍的 profligate 被挥霍的 squandered 肆意挥霍的人 High Roller ...
He squandered all his money on gambling.
他把自己所有的钱都糟蹋在赌博上了。
The government made a total hash of things and squandered a small fortune.
政府把事情弄得一团糟，还浪费了一笔钱。
Demanding the money from his father, he went away and squandered all.
他向父亲要了钱，就去挥霍了。
"The report reconfirms that we still need a strong regulatory system to ensure that the technology is not squandered away by poor management practices by both farmers and seed developers."
VOA : standard.2010.04.15
So defamiliarization, against the backdrop of a kind of gray uniformity that Jakobson in his essay on byt "The Generation that Squandered its Poets" called "byt"-- I don't know how to pronounce that.
陌生化所针对的，灰色一致性,正如雅各布森在他的论文,浪费诗人的时代中提到的，称为-,我不知道这个词怎么发音。
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If the vehicle in the unfortunate circumstances of a collision, has to be able to maintain the security of the hydrogen which means more mass, which means a lot of the efficiency is being squandered What's the environmental impact of hydrogen production?
如果车辆,在碰撞中发生了不幸，要仍然能够保持氢气的安全性的话,意味着需要更多的质量，也就是说大部分效率被浪费了,制氢对环境有什么影响呢？
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But the Republican claim that this squandered an opportunity to fell the regime is questionable.
Jankovic squandered three match points in the third set as Dementieva forced the tie-breaker.
Unfortunately, Obama squandered this opportunity by playing it safe and using his typical rhetoric.