frittered

英 [ˈfrɪtəd]

美 [ˈfrɪtərd]

v.  浪费; 细切; 剁碎; 减少; 消散
fritter的过去分词和过去式

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

• Frittered time. Day ends a little blank, but fine.
  消磨时间。在一天结束的时候有些空荡荡的，但是挺好。
• The simple life is not necessarily living in a cabin, cultivating beans,. It is refusing to let our lives be frittered away by detail.
  WlkomirRichard，Americanwriter朴实无华的生活并不是必须住在木屋里，种植豌豆，它只不过是不让我们的生命一点一滴地浪费掉。
• He's frittered away the money his father left him.
  他挥霍掉了父亲留给他的钱财。
• In a standard IMF programme, it sets conditions around fiscal discipline and structural reform, to make sure a currency devaluation is not frittered away and instead returns a country to a sustainable position where it can pay down its debt.
  在imf标准的项目中，它会围绕财政纪律和结构改革设定条件，从而确保受援国不会滥用货币贬值措施，而是帮助该国回归到有能力偿还债务的可持续状态。
• Study on Craft of Dried Fish Floss from Tilapia 'flesh Frittered
  用罗非鱼碎肉制作鱼松的生产工艺研究
• The third is to be certain that the temperature gradient which that badly conducting material creates is not frittered away by poor design.
  第三，要肯定的是，温度梯度要采取导热不好材料进行创建，而不要因为不良的设计而一点一滴地浪费。
• The government said that with Ebola waning, many children were already playing in their communities, and that potential teaching time in the classroom was being frittered away.
  政府表示，随着埃博拉疫情缓解，很多孩子已经开始在自己的社区里玩耍，本来可以花在课堂上的教学时间被白白浪费了。
• He frittered his savings away on cars.
  他把积蓄都浪费在车上。
• He frittered away his money on junk food.
  他把钱都浪费在垃圾食品上。
• How do you mark time's passage without the fear that you've just frittered away your time on earth without being relevant?
  你如何看着时光流逝，却不用担心你只是在挥霍人生在世的时间，与任何人都无关联？