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

• Whenever she's tempted to fritter away time, doing something that doesn't contribute to the magazine's success, she glances at that issue, and it gets her back on track.
  每当她受到什么事情引诱而消磨时间、做一些与杂志成功无关的事情时，看看那本杂志，她的注意力就会回到正事上来。
• 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。
• Whatever general good will exists for the union movement, this strike is likely to fritter it away.
  一般存在什么善意工会运动，这次罢工可能犹疑带走。
• 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。
• Otherwise you simply free up time at work that you will then fritter away pointlessly.
  否则，你就干脆处理工作上的事情，然后你在上班时就可以漫无目的地消磨。
• Manchu wanted to exercise authority through its own hairstyle, and fritter away the superiority complex of Han nationality.
  满族希望通过推行满族发式来确立自己统治权威，消磨汉族人的优越心理。
• 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。
• "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！”
• The fritter of the rubber can be erased by the way by using the utility model.
  使用本实用新型则可顺手把橡皮屑扫净。
• 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”。