Squander

squander







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vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    浪費,揮霍[(+on)]

                      If we squander our fossil fuels, we threaten civilization.

                      如果我們浪費礦物燃料,我們就威脅文明。



vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)



          1.    浪費



n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    浪費,揮霍 





　

This luminous literary adaptation stays just the right side of precious and pretentious in tracing the love between two unlikely gamblers, one a proto-feminist heiress who seems determined to squander both [fortune] and [reputation], the other a sheltered Anglican minister who sees proof of God's handiwork in the constellation of his poker cards.