squandered

1. VERB 浪费，挥霍(金钱、资源、机遇等)
   If you squander money, resources, or opportunities, you waste them.
   1. Hooker didn't squander his money on flashy cars or other vices...
      胡克没有将自己的钱浪费在豪华轿车或其他恶习上。
   2. He had squandered his chances to win.
      他白白浪费了获胜的机会。

1. The Government made a total hash of things and squandered a small fortune
   政府把事情搞砸了，还白白浪费了一大笔钱。
2. She squandered millions on a life of make-believe.
   她为一种虚幻的生活挥金如土。
3. He had squandered his chances to win.
   他白白浪费了获胜的机会。
4. But at the same time, time squandered is a waste.
   但是，同时，花大量的过多的时间却也是一种铺张浪费。
5. I had feared that my time had been squandered and my last penny lost.
   我只恐我的时间浪掷了，我的最后一文钱也丢掉了。
6. You've squandered every penny you've earned.
   你自己挣一个钱就花一个。
7. The Clinton Administration left behind a surplus, but this Administration squandered it.
   克林顿政府留下的财政盈余已被本届政府挥霍殆尽。
8. Byron squandered a fortune.
   拜伦把一笔家产挥霍殆尽了。
9. Ireland squandered several chances, including a penalty that cost them the game.
   爱尔兰队浪费了几个机会，包括导致他们输掉比赛的一个点球。
10. The banking industry has had countless chances to heed the warning signals from government and regulators and to reform itself but all the chances have been squandered.
    银行业曾有无数次机会听取政府和监管方的警告信号，对自身实施改革，但这些机会都被浪费了。
11. He squandered his academic scholarship however, and was eventually forced to make other plans.
    因此他也就不得不废掉了奖学金，这也最终促使他不得不重新作出计划。
12. In anytime has squandered a big half day.
    平平无奇地已经挥霍了大半天。
13. Kevin was broke because he had squandered all his money gambling.
    凯文破产了，因为他把所有的钱都浪费在了赌博上。
14. He has squandered all his savings on drink.
    他把存的钱全买酒喝了。
15. Pension money was squandered in the past on things like building holiday resorts in preposterous but politically important places.
    过去，养老金被挥霍在一些诸如在不合理却有政治意义的地点建设度假村的事情上。
16. First the opportunity to sell out to Microsoft for$ 48bn was squandered.
    最初，该公司浪费了以480亿美元出售给微软（Microsoft）的机会。
17. It would be a pity were the opportunity to be squandered because of a thirst for retribution.
    如果有些人因为渴望报复而浪费这个机遇，那将十分可惜。
18. He's squandered his money and now he's got to face the music.
    他把钱挥霍光了，现在得承担自己行为的后果。
19. In the boom times money was squandered now lenders and investors are deploying it much more wisely.
    在繁荣时期，人们肆意挥霍资金；现在，信贷机构和投资者正在更明智地配置资金。
20. He took the ivory back to Benares, sold it, and squandered the money as before.
    他带着象牙回到贝拿勒斯，卖掉象牙，然后如前一样大肆挥霍。
21. One opportunity after another has been squandered most recently in the failure promptly to pass a proper jobs bill.
    一个又一个机会被浪费掉最近的一个例子是，一项合理的就业法案未能获得通过。
22. One that you've squandered on selfish endeavors.
    而你只是用自私的行动把它浪费了。
23. He squandered his pocket money on movies.
    他浪费零用钱于电影。
24. All the while, as the IMF rightly warns, other opportunities are being squandered.
    一直以来，正如imf所警告的那样，其它机会都被浪费了。
25. To be squandered by some silly misunderstanding.
    不能因为一些愚蠢的误解而浪费。
26. They squandered their little nest-egg.
    他们挥霍掉了他们的一点点存款。
27. Lyndon Johnson squandered his gifts and his landslide mandate on Vietnam and was forced to stand down.
    林顿约翰逊把他的才能和占压倒多数的当选票，全都浪费在越南问题上了，最后被迫宣布退出总统竞。
28. But when the tap ran freely, water was squandered, and-inevitably-stopped.
    但当水龙头可以免费开时，水被大量浪费，然后－可避免的－没了。
29. Or will it be squandered through inefficiency, waste, and corruption?
    或者，是否会在低效、浪费和腐败中错过这个机遇？
30. Squandered, leaving only a life of regret;
    挥霍了，只留得一生遗憾；

adj

1. not used to good advantage
   1. squandered money cannot be replaced
   2. a wasted effort

   Synonym:    wasted