fritter away

基本解釋

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。
But the political oversight to ensure that high-spending countries do not fritter away other people’s money would take years to sort out—and one thing the euro zone does not have is time.
確保高消費(fèi)國家不浪費(fèi)他國人們的錢的政治監(jiān)管，可能需要數(shù)年才能真正建立起來。
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.
假如放幾本書，丈夫等待出門前作最后預(yù)備的妻子時(shí)，就可以順手翻翻，消磨那段說不好是長是短的時(shí)間。

If you are sloppy with selection or execution you will fritter away the ETF cost advantage.
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Management efforts to defend the old success formula with investments in extensions simply fritter away investor money.
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They had nothing to do and did not want to fritter away their strength with empty living.
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If someone fritters away time or money, they waste it on unimportant or unnecessary things.