fritter

英 [ˈfrɪtə(r)]

美 [ˈfrɪtər]

v.  浪费; 细切; 剁碎; 减少; 消散
n.  油炸馅饼

复数：fritters　过去分词：frittered　现在分词：frittering　过去式：frittered　第三人称单数：fritters　

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BNC.22095 / COCA.21891

短语动词

短语用例

fritter sth↔away (on sth)

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

牛津词典

verb

verb

noun

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

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。

英英释义

noun

• small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables

verb

• spend frivolously and unwisely
  1. Fritter away one's inheritance
  Synonym:frivol awaydissipateshootfritter awayfoolfool away

双语例句

• 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。
• 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？”
• 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。
• 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。
• Never fritter away your time;
  莫浪费时间；
• 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”。
• 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。
• "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！”
• 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。
• 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。