| 单词 | squander |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['skwɔndə] |
| 解释 | v.浪费，挥霍 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 v.浪费，挥霍 (to spend extravagantly; dissipate) 【考】 proctor : supervise / prodigal : squander(监考人监考/挥霍者 挥霍)dally : time / squander : money(虚度时间/挥霍金钱)反义词：husband(节 俭); conserve (保存) 【记】 源自方言，因莎士比 亚《威尼斯商人》一 剧中用此词而广泛流传 【例】 squander natural resources |
| 字源 | 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. |
| 不择手段背单词 | v. /n. 浪费, 挥霍 = dissipate 【记】squ压, ander下: 把筹码从老虎机的slot中压下去－挥霍 【参】squash(n 南瓜; v 压扁); squeeze(n /v 压榨) 【类】proctor: supervise = prodigal: squander 监考者监考 = 挥霍者挥霍dally: time = squander: money 虚度时间 = 挥霍金钱 【反】husband = conserve(v 节俭; 保存); hoard(v 储藏) |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】音：使光的，使咣当，钱使光了，使没了，钱箱咣当咣当的是空的，挥霍一空 |
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