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!”

Don’t fritter away your precious time

大好时光，不可等闲度过。

fritter away time [energy, money]

浪费时间 [精力, 金钱]

Whenever she’s tempted to fritter away timedoing something that doesn’t contribute to the magazine’s successshe glances at that issueand it gets her back on track

每当她受到什么事情引诱而消磨时间、做一些与杂志成功无关的事情时，看看那本杂志，她的注意力就会回到正事上来。

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

你为何将时间和心思都耗费在琐碎的小事上。

Fritter away one’s money on gambling

在赌博上挥霍公钱.

apple fritter s

炸苹果饼.

||1:Cutting the credits altogether might also harm Georgia in other ways.||2:A study by Keybridge Public Policy Economics, a consultancy, says the state could lose $252m by 2030 if they disappear and people buy gas-guzzlers instead.||3:That is because drivers will spend $714m on petrol to get around (in contrast with the $261m they would have paid in electricity bills), and will no longer fritter away their savings from the federal electric-vehicle tax credit in Georgia’s shops.||4:But the state’s incentives may be safe in the legislature after all; the president of the Senate drives an electric car himself.

||1:对信贷费用的削减有可能在其他方面伤害乔治亚州。||2:咨询机构键桥公共政策经济学（Keybridge Public Policy Economics）的一项研究表明，到2030年，如果电动车消失，人们便青睐“油老虎”，那么该州将遭受损失25200万美元。||3:原因是：驾驶者将花费71400万美元去加油站加油（相较之下，他们只需花费26100万美元在电动车上）；同时可以从联邦电动车税收信贷中积攒储蓄。||4:然而，该州的优惠政策在立法过程中终究是安全的，参议院议长自己是骑电动车的。

||1:He became their protector and friend.||2:In return they gave him money to buy a better car, but he preferred to get a cheap one and, in his chaotic style, fritter the rest away.||3:At times he found he was thinking like a journalist himself, pushing his charges to get closer to the action when something newsworthy occurred.||4:He wanted to be there in the sweat of it when history happened.||5:Yet history seemed to have slowed almost to a stop in Congo.||6:Nothing changed, and nothing would.||7:Its leaders were idiots.||8:The economy was bust.

||1:他成为了他们的保护者和朋友。||2:作为回报，他们给他钱去买一辆更好的汽车，但他更喜欢买一个便宜的，然后以他混乱的风格，把其余的挥霍掉。||3:有时他会发现他像一个记者一样思考，当有新闻价值的事情发生时，他会向事发地点飞速赶去。||4:当历史发生的时候，他想在那里汗流浃背。||5:然而，历史似乎已经放缓到几乎止步于刚果。||6:没有什么改变，也不会改变。||7:刚果的领导人是白痴。||8:经济崩溃了。

The family-owned chain does not fritter away cash on advertising.

家族式连锁不会在广告费用上造成任何浪费。

Some of the comparison cases had extraordinary sequences of good luck yet showed a spectacular ability to fritter that luck away.

比较案例中的一些公司经历了一系列非常好运的事件却将它们白白浪费。

Otherwise you simply free up time at work that you will then fritter away pointlessly.

否则，你就干脆处理工作上的事情，然后你在上班时就可以漫无目的地消磨。

Later, he would fritter away a large part of his fortune on never-realised projects such as a theme park dedicated to racial harmony.

后来，他在一些从未能实现的项目上挥霍掉了一大笔财产，比如为种族和谐而建立的一个主题公园。

The family-owned chain does not fritter away cash on advertising.

家族式连锁不会在广告费用上造成任何浪费。

Which means too many guys are eating the apples without leaving off the pie, strudel, and fritter part.

那就意味着太多男性吃苹果馅饼，苹果陷点心，以及其他甜食。

He is choosing to invest himself in people rather than fritter his time away on trivial, temporary matters.

他选择在一些人身上投资他自己而不是在一些琐事，临时的问题上浪费他的时间。

fritter : v. to waste( money, time, etc. )carelessly

消耗，浪费，挥霍（钱，时间等）

That was good value, considering that we now fritter the same amount every nine days in Afghanistan.

这钱花的绝对值，但如今我们在阿富汗每9天就浪费了这么多的钱。

fritter away

vt.慢慢地消耗,渐渐地消失

fritter into

vt.渐渐地消散为,消弱为

fritter away time

n.浪费时间