fritter away

Fritter away one 's time ( on playing cards )

浪费某人的时间（在玩纸牌戏上）

Never fritter away your time ;

莫浪费时间；

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。

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。

Some Indians , too , fear their country could fritter away its democratic dividend .

一些印度人也担心，印度可能会浪费自己的人口红利。

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。

That may reflect gamblers feeling more content to fritter away their earnings at the baccarat tables as the economy improves .

这可能反映出，在经济改善的时候，赌客们更愿意在赌台上挥霍自己赚的钱。

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine .

仅仅又过了一天不是庆祝的理由，你的存在不是为了浪费宝贵的时光。

" 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！”

Matthew Sinclair of the TaxPayers'Alliance said ," There is no chance that these officials would spend their own money this way , so why should they be allowed to fritter away ours ?"

英国纳税人联盟的马修·辛克莱说，“这些官员不可能花自己的钱去学这些，那么他们为什么可以这样浪费我们的钱呢？”

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。

If put a few books , when the wife that final preparation makes before the husband waits to go out , OK conveniently breaks up , fritter away says that paragraph bad it is long it is short time .

假如放几本书，丈夫等待出门前作最后预备的妻子时，就可以顺手翻翻，消磨那段说不好是长是短的时间。

Make the most of them . Don 't fritter them away .

尽最大限度地利用这些机会，不要挥霍掉了。

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。

You will need your physical energy as the shift gets underway , so don 't fritter it away it on unimportant activities .

你同样需要良好的身体状态去应对这正在进行中的转变，所以不要浪费时间在那些不重要的活动上。

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。

We cannot ask one dry region to give away the dregs of its resources so another part of the country can fritter it away on golf courses and swimming pools .

我们不能要求一个干旱地区让出自己微薄的资源，而让本国其他地区浪费在高尔夫球场和游泳池这样的设施上。

When you don 't fritter money away on junk , you have more to put toward the essentials - house payment , debt , retirement , and experiences .

如果你不在毫无使用价值的东西上浪费钱的话，你就可以有更多的资金用于生活的基本需求上，比如房款、贷款、养老保险以及各种生活体验。

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。

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”。