0 to waste money or supplies, or to waste opportunities by not using them to your advantage -- 浪费,挥霍(金钱或补给品);糟蹋(机会)
His mind was exerted to the utmost at every moment, squandering all his energy.
The papermaker who employed four vats lost one hundred production days per year, and squandered cartloads of coal warming the pulp in idle vessels.
In fact, compared to the efficiency (and self-sufficiency) of photosynthesis, much more energy is squandered when one animal consumes another or consumes plant material.
Meanwhile, he lived ' an idle and profligate life never working at his business ', and squandering away their money.
Precious foreign currency needed for raw materials purchases could not be squandered on debt servicing.
In hindsight, a good deal of science appears to squander resourses.
To squander three of them by introducing four blocks could be quite wrong.
Several major opportunities to cross-reference information were squandered during the production of this encyclopaedia and that means its value as a research tool is limited.