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

• 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。
• He's frittered away the money his father left him.
  他挥霍掉了父亲留给他的钱财。
• Our life is frittered away by detail. Don't wear away your life in trifles.
  我们的生活在琐碎之中消耗掉了。
• He frittered away his money on junk food.
  他把钱都浪费在垃圾食品上。
• 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。
• This is why writing good specs takes so long: most of the time is frittered away on asshole management.
  这就是为什么好设计说明书需要花这么长时间编写的原因：大部分的时间都消耗在了应付这些狗屎们的工作中。
• 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？
• He frittered his savings away on cars.
  他把积蓄都浪费在车上。
• In both cases investors turned off their risk radar and frittered away untold billions of dollars.
  在这两场泡沫中，投资者都关闭了风险雷达，浪费了无数资金。
• 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。