fritter

verb

verb

noun

1. 油炸馅饼
   a piece of fruit, meat or vegetable that is covered with batter and fried

1. N-COUNT 油炸馅饼
   Fritters are round pieces of fruit, vegetables, or meat that are dipped in batter and fried.
   1. ...apple fritters.
      苹果油炸馅饼
2. PHRASAL VERB 浪费;挥霍
   If someone fritters away time 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。

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。
3. That may reflect gamblers feeling more content to fritter away their earnings at the baccarat tables as the economy improves.
   这可能反映出，在经济改善的时候，赌客们更愿意在赌台上挥霍自己赚的钱。
4. But if you are a serious private investor, leave the Las Vegas mentality to those with money to fritter.
   但是，如果你是一个认真的私人投资者，就把拉斯韦加斯的心态留给那些有钱可供挥霍的人。
5. After the rubber is used, the fritter of the rubber is always stuck on the paper, and the fritter of the rubber is erased by people hands; thus, the paper is easy to be dirtied.
   使用橡皮后总会有一些橡皮屑粘的纸上，人们常用手把它抹去，这样很容易把纸弄脏。
6. You will need your physical energy as the shift gets underway, so don't fritter it away it on unimportant activities.
   你同样需要良好的身体状态去应对这正在进行中的转变，所以不要浪费时间在那些不重要的活动上。
7. If put a few books, when the wife that final preparation makes before the husband waits to go out, OK conveniently breaks up, fritter away says that paragraph bad it is long it is short time.
   假如放几本书，丈夫等待出门前作最后预备的妻子时，就可以顺手翻翻，消磨那段说不好是长是短的时间。
8. To reject it or ignore it or fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the after-time.
   拒绝它或者忽略它或者浪费它都将带给我们以后长久的耻辱。
9. Nine out of ten employees would simply fritter any extra money away "upon richer food and drink, better clothing, more extravagant living, which are beneficial neither to rich nor poor".
   百分之九十的员工会将额外的收入浪费在“更昂贵的食物和饮料、好的服装、奢侈的生活之上，这对员工和老板都没有好处”。
10. Why do you fritter your time and thought away on trivial things? The consensus-making process may take a long time.
    你为何将时间和心思都耗费在琐碎的小事上。协议的进程费力耗时。
11. It's easy to fritter away a fortune if you're not careful.
    如果你不小心，要挥霍掉一大笔钱是很容易的。
12. Fritter containing corn or corn kernels.
    夹有玉米粒的油炸馅饼。
13. Fritter away one's time ( on playing cards)
    浪费某人的时间（在玩纸牌戏上）
14. "Pei-yao, I think you should keep an eye on your sister, and not let her fritter away her time as if she were still a child."
    “佩瑶，你也总得把阿珊的事放在心上，不要由她每天像小孩子似的一味玩笑！”
15. Fritter containing corn or corn kernels. Not a grain of rice was wasted.
    夹有玉米粒的油炸馅饼。一粒米也没有浪费。
16. Some Indians, too, fear their country could fritter away its democratic dividend.
    一些印度人也担心，印度可能会浪费自己的人口红利。
17. Fritter containing sliced apple.
    夹有苹果片的油炸馅饼。
18. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
    仅仅又过了一天不是庆祝的理由，你的存在不是为了浪费宝贵的时光。
19. Whatever general good will exists for the union movement, this strike is likely to fritter it away.
    一般存在什么善意工会运动，这次罢工可能犹疑带走。
20. Otherwise you simply free up time at work that you will then fritter away pointlessly.
    否则，你就干脆处理工作上的事情，然后你在上班时就可以漫无目的地消磨。
21. Never fritter away your time;
    莫浪费时间；
22. If I've got money in my pocket, I tend to fritter it.
    要是我口袋里有钱的话，我往往会挥霍一空。
23. Matthew Sinclair of the TaxPayers'Alliance said," There is no chance that these officials would spend their own money this way, so why should they be allowed to fritter away ours?"
    英国纳税人联盟的马修·辛克莱说，“这些官员不可能花自己的钱去学这些，那么他们为什么可以这样浪费我们的钱呢？”
24. Whenever she's tempted to fritter away time, doing something that doesn't contribute to the magazine's success, she glances at that issue, and it gets her back on track.
    每当她受到什么事情引诱而消磨时间、做一些与杂志成功无关的事情时，看看那本杂志，她的注意力就会回到正事上来。
25. The fritter of the rubber can be erased by the way by using the utility model.
    使用本实用新型则可顺手把橡皮屑扫净。
26. We cannot ask one dry region to give away the dregs of its resources so another part of the country can fritter it away on golf courses and swimming pools.
    我们不能要求一个干旱地区让出自己微薄的资源，而让本国其他地区浪费在高尔夫球场和游泳池这样的设施上。
27. Manchu wanted to exercise authority through its own hairstyle, and fritter away the superiority complex of Han nationality.
    满族希望通过推行满族发式来确立自己统治权威，消磨汉族人的优越心理。

fritter sth↔away (on sth)

1. 浪费（时间、金钱）；挥霍
   to waste time or money on things that are not important

noun

1. small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables

verb

1. spend frivolously and unwisely
   1. Fritter away one's inheritance

   Synonym:    frivol awaydissipateshootfritter awayfoolfool away