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

• "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！”
• 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。
• 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。
• Fritter containing corn or corn kernels.
  夹有玉米粒的油炸馅饼。
• Never fritter away your time;
  莫浪费时间；
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• Fritter containing corn or corn kernels. Not a grain of rice was wasted.
  夹有玉米粒的油炸馅饼。一粒米也没有浪费。