Dissipation
[dɪsɪ'peɪʃ(ə)n] or ['dɪsə'peʃən]
解释:
(noun.) breaking up and scattering by dispersion; 'the dissipation of the mist'.
昌西整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
(n.) A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
(n.) A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Dispersion, scattering, vanishing.[2]. Waste, squandering.[3]. Dissoluteness, profligacy, excess.
弗里达编辑
例句:
- Application and industry have been familiar to the one; idleness and dissipation to the other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- A perfect type of the strongly masculine, unmarred by dissipation, or brutal or degrading passions. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The thoughtless riot, dissipation, and debauchery of his younger days produced fever and delirium. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- But this freedom, which leads to many curious extravagances of character, is in reality only a state of weakness and dissipation. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I tried dissipation--never debauchery: that I hated, and hate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Oh, my worldly friends, pursuing the phantom, Pleasure, through the guilty mazes of Dissipation, how easy it is to be happy, if you will only be good! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- That he need not plunge into this destructive dissipation for the sake of disgusting me, and causing me to fly. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- My recent dissipation, and strange remarks, made so soon after his sister's death, were an insult to her memory. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- He never wasted a moment of time, or lavished a farthing of money in folly or dissipation. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- But it is surely much easier to change the direction of industry from one sort of labour to another, than to turn idleness and dissipation to any. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Mr. Creamer, her medical man, would not hear of her returning to her old haunts and dissipation in London. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- It is the call of nature, which requires to be relieved by some indulgence, sometimes of ease only, but sometimes too of dissipation and diversion. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- She mortally hated work, and loved what she called pleasurebeing an insipid, heartless, brainless dissipation of time. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
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