| 正面 | 11992.squander 英 ['skwɒndə]美 ['skwɑndɚ]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： squander (死光的，食光的，撕光的) 浪费 ;Squander：（口袋）是光的——浪费、挥霍谐音“死逛的”——有点钱就到街上拼命地逛街vt. 浪费vi. 浪费；漂泊n. 浪费 例句： 1. Hooker didn't squander his money on flashy cars or other vices.胡克没有将自己的钱浪费在豪华轿车或其他恶习上。 squander 挥霍，浪费词源不详，可能来自拟声词根 squ-,挤，压，模仿挤压湿物体时发出的吧唧声。比较 splurge, 挥霍，浪费。 squander (v.)1580s (implied in squandering), "to spend recklessly or prodigiously," of unknown origin; Shakespeare used it in "Merchant of Venice" (1593) with a sense of "to be scattered over a wide area." Squander-bug, a British symbol of reckless extravagance and waste during war-time shortages, represented as a devilish insect, was introduced 1943. In U.S., Louis Ludlow coined squanderlust (1935) for the tendency of government bureaucracies to spend much money." |