Fritter
['frɪtə] or ['frɪtɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables.
(verb.) spend frivolously and unwisely; 'Fritter away one's inheritance'.
博妮塔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.
(v. t.) A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
(v. t.) To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.
(v. t.) To break into small pieces or fragments.
阿蒂整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Small pan-cake, doughnut, fried cake.[2]. Fragment, piece, shred.
v. a. [1]. Slice, cut into small pieces.[2]. Break into fragments.
卡洛斯錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Dribble, waste, idle, dissipate
ANT:Economise, husband, cultivate
整理:威廉
解釋/意思:
n. a piece of meat fried: a kind of pancake a slice of some fruit sweetened fried and served hot: a fragment.—v.t. to break into fragments.—n. Fritt′erer one who wastes time.
錄入:萨姆纳
例句/造句/用法:
- Forthwith they began to fritter it away. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It would not let that passion and loyalty be frittered away to drift like scum through the nation. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The allies, after the fashion of Peace Congresses, frittered away precious time in more and more rapacious disputes; the Bourbons returned to France. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
手打:撒迪厄斯