frittering

英 [ˈfrɪtərɪŋ]

美 [ˈfrɪtərɪŋ]

v.  浪费; 细切; 剁碎; 减少; 消散
fritter的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 油炸馅饼
  Frittersare round pieces of fruit, vegetables, or meat that are dipped in batter and fried.
  1. ...apple fritters.
     苹果油炸馅饼
• PHRASAL VERB 浪费;挥霍
  If someonefritters awaytime or money, they waste it on unimportant or unnecessary things.
  1. The firm soon started frittering away the cash it was generating...
     这家公司不久就开始挥霍赚来的钱。
  2. I seem to fritter my time away at coffee mornings.
     我似乎把时间全都浪费在咖啡早茶会上了。

双语例句

• A study revealed that scores of us are bolting down our evening meal in less than ten minutes. Others are hurrying through love-making in just two minutes. Workers are also frittering their monthly wages well before their next payday.
  研究显示，许多人都把晚饭缩减在10分钟之内吃完，还有好些人只用两分钟便匆忙完成做爱，在下个月发薪日前便花完了上个月的薪水。
• It argues that, in fact, these young people are frittering away as much as half of their time again as they would if they performed the very same tasks one after the other.
  研究认为，正像依次完成各个任务一样，这些年轻人仍旧浪费了一半时间。
• Doing the things that best serve your career goals before you do anything else, he says, will keep you from frittering away precious time and energy on non-essentials.
  他说，在你做其他事情以前，首先做那些对你的职业目标有利的事情，这样做才不会浪费你的宝贵时间、花费不必要的精力。
• We must avoid frittering away our resources on untenable positions.
  我们应避免在难以守住的据点上消耗我们的实力。
• At an impromptu press conference on her stoep in searing heat, a black journalist pointedly insinuated that Mandela was frittering away his time in office.
  曼德拉冒着炙热高温在贝齐屋前的门廊上举行了一场临时记者招待会。一位黑人记者在会上含沙射影地说道，曼德拉浪费了办公时间。
• Do your best to leverage this verve as it comes, rather than frittering it away on things like furniture shopping.
  当你精力充沛时，尽你最大努力来协调你的活力，别浪费于在家具购物上。
• In an unusually public denunciation, Chinese media quoted the Commission berating state companies for frittering away cash.
  在一次不同寻常的公开谴责中，中国媒体引用国资委的话斥责国企浪费金钱。
• He has spent all his life in letting down buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
  他把一生花费于把水桶落到枯井里，如今又把残年消耗于把它们吊上来。
• You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
  你不得不培养你思考的能力，因为你没有必要把生命消耗在愚蠢的琐事中。
• You've spent enough time frittering away your energies trying to help other people out of dilemmas they actually enjoyed being part of.
  你已经花了很多时间，浪费精力去帮助他人解决两难的局面，但其实他们都乐在其中。