spend, squander, spent fuel rods. be consumed by/with something. Often they avert their eyes, consumed by their own thoughts.Credit...

“The Tea,” about 1880. Cassatt’s women rarely look ahead at the viewer. Often they avert their eyes, consumed by their own thoughts.Credit...via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 spent fuel rods

In Fuel-Cooling Pools, a Danger for the Longer Term

By WILLIAM J. BROAD and HIROKO TABUCHI 1 minute ago

Even as workers race to prevent meltdowns, concerns were growing that nearby pools holding spent fuel rods could pose an even greater nuclear threat.

Spend Saturday with Boris Godunov


原譯 ：唯一真正的快樂， 是來自我們對於一項目標毫不吝惜的奉獻。

《種一棵家族樹》這本書記載著家園重建後幸福的本質與深度。
約翰．梅森．布朗 (John Mason Brown 1900-69)曾說：「我們真正的幸福來自對於目的不懈奉獻。」(The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.)
從更新會的幹部中，我看到「心」字，有心就有力，因為具備著「苦心、良心、費心、用心」四顆心，所以百鍊鋼也會化為繞指柔。

squander	(verb) Spend thoughtlessly; throw away.
Synonyms:	waste, blow
Usage:	Each man swore that for once he would be sensible and not squander his money.

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1Waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner:£100m of taxpayers' money has been squandered on administering the tax

More example sentencesSynonyms

1.1Allow (an opportunity) to pass or be lost:the team squandered several good scoring chances

squander[squan・der]

• 発音記号[skwɑ'ndər | skwɔ'n-]

[動](他)

1 〈時間・金銭などを〉（…に）浪費［乱費］する((on ...))

squander one's opportunity
機会を無駄にする.

2 …をまき散らす, 追い散らす, 分散させる.

━━[名]浪費（行為）.

squan・der・er

[名]squander
(skwŏn'dər)
tr.v., -dered, -der·ing, -ders.

1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See synonyms at waste.
2. To fail to take advantage of; lose a chance for: squandered an opportunity to go to college.
3. Obsolete. To scatter.

n.
Extravagant expenditure; prodigality.

[Origin unknown.]

squanderer squan'der·er n.
squanderingly squan'der·ing·ly adv.

spend

(spĕnd)

v., spent (spĕnt), spend·ing, spends. v.tr.

1. To use up or put out; expend: spent an hour exercising.
2. To pay out (money).
3. To wear out; exhaust: The storm finally spent itself.
4. To pass (time) in a specified manner or place: spent their vacation in Paris.
5. 1. To throw away; squander: spent all their resources on futile projects.
   2. To give up (one's time or efforts, for example) to a cause; sacrifice.

v.intr.

1. To pay out or expend money.
2. To be exhausted or consumed.

[Middle English spenden, partly from Old English -spendan (from Latin expendēre, to expend; see expend) and partly from Old French despendre, to weigh out; see dispense.]

spendable spend'a·ble adj.
spender spend'er n.

SYNONYMS spend, disburse, expend. These verbs mean to pay or give out money or an equivalent: spent eight dollars for a movie ticket; disbursed funds from the account; expended all her energy teaching the class.
ANTONYM¹ save

spent[spent]

• 発音記号[spént]

[動]spendの過去・過去分詞形.

━━[形]

1 〈物が〉浪費された, 使い尽くした；((文))〈人が〉疲れはてた；((俗))麻薬で廃人になった

well-spent
有益に過ごした［使った］

a spent runner
疲れきった走者.

2 〈魚・昆虫が〉産卵した.

3 射精した.

 be consumed by/with something

 

C2

to have so much of a feeling that it affects everything you do:

He was consumed with jealousy.