fritter

英 ['frɪtə(r)] 美 ['frɪtər]

• n. 油炸馅饼
• v. 浪费

英英释义

Noun:

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

Verb:

1. spend frivolously and unwisely;

   "Fritter away one's inheritance"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Guests love to eat fritter containing sliced apple.
   客人喜欢吃夹有苹果片的油炸馅饼。

用作动词 (v.)

1. He has frittered away every chance he ever got.
   他把到手的每个机会都糟塌掉了。
2. And some are going to fritter away the years quarreling about staff cuts.
   但另一些却是为裁员问题争执不休而浪费时间。

经典引文

• This window is a series of small panels..and these..throw the building into fritter.

  出自： T. Rickman

• People have been staying here...such a fritter agitation.

  出自： V. Woolf

• You won't fritter the company profits on taxi fares.

  出自：Sunday Post (Glasgow)

• She had watched her mother's intelligence being frittered away on calculations about the price of tinned food.

  出自： J. Barnes

词汇搭配

• fritter away 浪费(时间等）...

近反义词

【近义词】

• laze 懒散
• moon 月亮
• shell 壳
• shoot 发射
• dissipate 驱散
• frivol away 愚蠢地浪费
• fool away 浪费
• fool 傻瓜
• fritter away 浪费(时间等）...