squanderとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈskwɒnd.ə/, [ˈskwɒnd.ə]
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈskwɑn.dɚ/, [ˈskʷɑn.dɚ]
• 韻: -ɒndə(ɹ)

動詞

squander (三人称単数 現在形 squanders, 現在分詞 squandering, 過去形および過去分詞形 squandered)

1. To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
   • 1746, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac^[2]

     Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

   • 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     As the game opened up, Bolton squandered a fine opportunity to equalise - Chris Eagles shooting straight at Szczesny - but then back came Arsenal.

2. (obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 6484883, Act I, page 2:

     […] our ſquander’d Troops he rallies: […]

3. (obsolete) To wander at random; to scatter.
   • c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vii], page 193, column 1:

     […] The Wiſe-mans folly is anathomiz’d / Euen by ſquandring glances of the foole.

使用する際の注意点

Squander implies starting with many resources, such as great wealth, and then wasting them (using them up to little purpose または little effect), often ending with little. Particularly used in phrases such as “squander an opportunity” or “squander an inheritance”. It may be used even if one starts with little, though usually in some construction such as “squander what little he had”.

同意語

• waste, splurge
• ducks and drakes
• throw away

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