2. to spend or use (something, such as time or money) in a way that is not legal, careful, or wise
misspent 片语
片语
abused滥用;虐待;辱骂(abuse 的过去式和过去分词)
spent花费,耗费;浪费(spend 的过去式和过去分词)
misspent 例句
英汉例句
During a portion of my misspent youth, I was a delivery driver for a well-known pizza-making organization.
在部分我露了一手青年,我是一个送货司机知名比萨饼制作组织。
It says that because we misspent our youth, the young whippersnappers are never going to catch up.
我们年轻的时候确实在弹子球上荒废了不少时间,所以现在那些自以为是的年轻人永远也赶不上。
This is Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the first of the role-playing games and the reason for thousands of misspent youths.
这些回忆就是有关「龙与地下城」(D&D)的,它是第一个角色扮演游戏,成千上万人为它浪费青春。
A large share of tax revenues has been transferred to local authorities, though so far with disappointing results: much has either been misspent or gone unspent.
税收收入的一大部分转给了地方政府,尽管到目前为止的结果令人失望:大部分不是被胡乱花掉就是不翼而飞。
Had I instead spent that hour each day learning the latest techniques for mastering the problems of autocorrelation in regression analysis, I would have badly misspent my life.