• vt. 浪費(fèi)；細(xì)切；剁碎
• n. 細(xì)片；屑；帶餡油炸面團(tuán)
• vi. 浪費(fèi)；減少；消散

揮霍義詞源同fraction, 碎片，引申詞義揮霍，浪費(fèi)，扔棄。餡餅義來自fry, 煎，油炸。

fritter

fritter: see fry

fritter (v.)

"whittle away, waste bit by bit, spend on trifles," 1728, probably from noun fritter "fragment or shred" (though this is recorded later), perhaps an alteration of 16c. fitters "fragments or pieces," which is perhaps ultimately from Old French fraiture "a breaking," from Latin fractura [OED]. Or perhaps from a Germanic *fet-source (compare Middle High German vetze "clothes, rags," Old English fetel "girdle").

fritter (n.)

"fried batter cake," served hot and sometimes sweetened or seasoned or with other food in it, late 14c., from Old French friture "fritter, pancake, something fried" (12c.), from Late Latin frictura "a frying," from frigere "to roast, fry" (see fry (v.)).

1. I seem to fritter my time away at coffee mornings.

我似乎把時間全都浪費(fèi)在咖啡早茶會上了。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Don't fritter away your precious time.

大好時光,不可等閑度過.

來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. It's easy to fritter away a fortune if you're not careful.

如果你不小心,要揮霍掉一大筆錢是很容易的.

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4. Don't fritter away your money on things you do not really need.

不要把錢浪費(fèi)在你并不真正需要的東西上.

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5. Why do you fritter your time and thought away on trivial things?

你為何將時間和心思都耗費(fèi)在瑣碎的小事上.

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