-
21 banana
[bə'nɑːnə]сущ.He slipped on a banana skin and almost fell. — Он поскользнулся на банановой кожуре и чуть не упал.
••to go bananas — разг. спятить, рехнуться
banana skin брит. / banana peel амер. — подвох, скользкая ситуация
She slipped on only one banana peel, squandering her first match point. — Она допустила всего одну оплошность, не реализовав свой первый матч-пойнт.
-
22 dissipation
[ˌdɪsɪ'peɪʃ(ə)n]сущ.1) рассеяние, рассеивание2) растрачивание (сил, энергии, средств); мотовствоSyn:3) легкомысленные развлечения; разгульный образ жизни4) утечкаSyn: -
23 squander
проматывать глагол:проматывать (squander, dissipate, fiddle away)проебать (squander, cuss out completely)имя существительное: -
24 prodigality
расточительность имя существительное: -
25 Indian summer
1) золотая осень; ≈ бабье лето ( реже St. Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer) [Indian summer первонач. амер.]These last four days, after the thunderstorm of Thursday, had brought a spell of unusually fine weather, a real Indian summer. (A. J. Cronin, ‘The Northern Light’, part II, ch. 14) — После разразившейся в четверг грозы четыре дня стояла необыкновенно ясная погода - настоящее бабье лето.
‘The weather is very delightful just now, is it not?’ ‘A St. Martinrs summer.’ (A. Christie, ‘Why Didn't They Ask Evans?’, ch. XXIV) — - Погода сейчас стоит замечательная, правда? - Настоящая золотая осень.
Inspector Craddock could never remember if it was St. Martin's or St. Luke's summer, but he knew it was very pleasant. (A. Christie, ‘A Murder Is Announced’, ch. 10) — Инспектор Крэддок не мог запомнить, как называть бабье лето: летом святого Мартина или святого Луки, но знал, что это очень хорошая пора.
And Hazel... she was squandering the Indian summer of her youth, knowing with brutal honesty that at the end of it lay only the hat factory, the bottle and cold bed. (D. Hewett, ‘Bobbin Up’, ch.4) — А Хейзел бездумно растрачивала свое бабье лето, наверняка зная, что впереди ее ждут только шляпная фабрика, бутылка, распитая в одиночестве, и столь же одинокое ложе.
-
26 blowing
1. n дуновение2. n дыхание, сопение3. n разг. хвастовство4. n откладывание яиц мухами5. n дутьё6. n сдувание, обдувание7. n просачивание, утечка8. n фонтанирование9. n выдуваниеsoil blowing — выдувание почвы, ветровая эрозия, дефляция
10. n дефект11. a ветреный12. n цветение13. n расцвет14. a цветущийСинонимический ряд:1. movement of air (adj.) blasting; blustering; breathing; fanning; gasping; movement of air; panting; puffing; whisking2. moving in air (adj.) drifting; flapping; fluttering; flying; moving in air; straining; streaming; waving; whipping3. blossoming (verb) blooming; blossoming; burgeoning; efflorescing; flowering4. boasting (verb) boasting; bragging; crowing; gasconading; mouthing; prating; vaunting5. fanning (verb) fanning; ruffling; winding; winnowing6. firing (verb) blasting; blow up; bursting; detonating; exploding; firing; go off; touch off7. gasping (verb) flowing; gasping; heaving; huffing; panting; puffing8. treating (verb) setting up; standing; treating9. wasting (verb) blundering away; casting away; consuming; dissipating; dribbling away; driveling or drivelling; fooling away; frittering; frivoling away or frivolling away; muddling away; rioting away; squandering; throwing away; trifling away; wasting -
27 consuming
a всепоглощающийconsuming ambition — честолюбие, снедающее человека
Синонимический ряд:1. gripping (adj.) absorbing; engrossing; enthralling; gripping; monopolizing2. immoderate (adj.) devastating; exhausting; harmful; immoderate; wasteful3. absorbing (verb) absorbing; engrossing; monopolising; monopolizing; preoccupying; sewing up4. eating (verb) devouring; eating; eating up; feeding on; ingesting; partaking; partaking of; taking5. polishing off (verb) polishing off; punishing; putting away; putting down; shifting; swilling6. spending (verb) depleting; draining; exhausting; expending; finishing; going; play out; run through; running through; spending; use up; using up; washing up7. swallowing (verb) consuming; devouring; dispatching; eat up; put away; swallowing8. wasting (verb) blowing; blundering away; casting away; dissipating; dribbling away; driveling or drivelling; fool away; fooling away; fritter away; frittering; frivoling away or frivolling away; muddling away; riot away; rioting away; squandering; throw away; throwing away; trifle away; trifling away; wasting -
28 dissipating
рассеивать; рассеивающийСинонимический ряд:1. going by (adj.) crossing; departing; disappearing; flashing by; gliding by; going by; passing; speeding by2. melting (verb) dispelling; dispersing; dissolving; fading; melting; scattering3. wasting (verb) blowing; blundering away; casting away; consuming; dribbling away; driveling or drivelling; fool away; fooling away; fritter away; frittering; frivoling away or frivolling away; muddling away; riot away; rioting away; squandering; throw away; throwing away; trifle away; trifling away; wasting -
29 drivelling
a несущий околёсицу, чепуху; выживший из умаhe is a drivelling idiot — он совсем выжил из ума, он несёт дикий бред
Синонимический ряд:1. babbling (verb) babbling; blabbering; blathering; prating; prattling; twaddling2. drooling (verb) dribbling; drooling; salivating; slavering; slobbering3. wasting (verb) blowing; blundering away; casting away; consuming; dissipating; dribbling away; fooling away; frittering; frivoling away or frivolling away; muddling away; rioting away; squandering; throwing away; trifling away; wasting -
30 economical
1. a экономный, бережливыйeconomical habits — бережливость, экономная жизнь, привычка экономить
2. a экономичный3. a экономическийСинонимический ряд:1. careful (adj.) careful; methodical; practical2. inexpensive (adj.) cheap; fair; inexpensive; low; moderate; reasonable3. provident (adj.) canny; chary; conservative; economizing; frugal; mean; penurious; provident; prudent; saving; scotch; spare; sparing; stewardly; thrifty; tight; unwasteful; waryАнтонимический ряд:expensive; free; generous; improvident; lavish; liberal; munificent; prodigal; spendthrift; squandering; wasteful -
31 lavishness
1. n щедрость; расточительность2. n обилие; чрезмерностьСинонимический ряд:1. profusion (noun) abundance; luxury; munificence; opulence; plenitude; plenty; profusion2. wastefulness (noun) dissipation; excess; extravagance; extravagancy; overdoing; prodigality; profligacy; squander; squandering; unthrift; waste; wastefulness -
32 prodigal
1. n мот, транжира2. a расточительныйprodigal spender — мот, транжира
3. a щедрый4. a чрезмерный; обильныйСинонимический ряд:1. abundant (adj.) abundant; bounteous; bountiful; copious; plenteous; plentiful2. exuberant (adj.) excessive; extravagant; exuberant; immoderate; lavish; lush; luxuriant; opulent; profligate; profuse; profusive; reckless; riotous; spendthrift; squandering; superabundant; wasteful3. spendthrift (noun) carouser; high roller; playboy; profligate; scattergood; spender; spendthrift; squanderer; unthrift; waster; wastethrift; wastrelАнтонимический ряд:economical; frugal; miserly; provident; saving; scanty; thrifty -
33 prodigality
1. n расточительность и мотовство2. n щедрость3. n обилие, богатствоСинонимический ряд:1. abundance (noun) abundance; amplitude; bounty; cornucopia; endless supply; plenty; profusion; wealth2. extravagance (noun) dissipation; extravagance; extravagancy; improvidence; lavishness; open-handedness; overdoing; profligacy; squander; squandering; unthrift; waste; wastefulness -
34 profligacy
1. n распутство2. n расточительность3. n изобилие; обилиеСинонимический ряд:1. extravagance (noun) dissipation; extravagance; lavishness; open-handedness; prodigality; squandering; waste; wastefulness2. licence (noun) licence3. wickedness (noun) abomination; corruption; depravity; evil; filth; immorality; impurity; pollution; wickedness -
35 profligate
1. n распутник, развратник2. n расточитель3. a распутный, развратный4. a расточительныйСинонимический ряд:1. abandoned (adj.) abandoned; licentious; reprobate; self-abandoned; unprincipled2. dissolute (adj.) degenerate; depraved; dissolute; lascivious; lewd; salacious; wanton; wicked3. prodigal (adj.) extravagant; lavish; prodigal; profuse; reckless; spendthrift; squandering; wasteful4. wild (adj.) incontinent; unbridled; unconstrained; uncontrolled; ungoverned; uninhibited; unrestrained; wild5. degenerate (noun) degenerate; libertine; reprobate6. spendthrift (noun) high roller; scattergood; spender; spendthrift; squanderer; unthrift; wastethrift7. wastrel (noun) good-for-nothing; ne'er-do-well; no-good; prodigal; rounder; scapegrace; waster; wastrelАнтонимический ряд:moral; thrifty -
36 thriftless
1. a расточительный, неэкономный2. a редк. невыгодный; бесполезныйСинонимический ряд:1. improvident (adj.) improvident; unthrift; unthrifty2. wasteful (adj.) extravagant; immoderate; negligent; prodigal; profligate; spendthrift; squandering; wasteful -
37 wasteful
1. a расточительный; неэкономныйwasteful expenditure — расточение средств; непроизводительные затраты
2. a расточающийwasteful of time — требующий много времени; без необходимости занимающий время
3. a редк. опустошительный, разорительныйСинонимический ряд:1. extravagant (adj.) careless; destructive; extravagant; improvident; lavish; prodigal; profligate; reckless; spendthrift; squandering; thriftless2. immoderate (adj.) consuming; devastating; exhausting; harmful; immoderateАнтонимический ряд: -
38 wasting
1. n слабость; упадок сил; исхудание2. n упадок, деградация3. n мед. атрофия4. a опустошительный, разорительный5. a изнурительныйСинонимический ряд:1. desolating (adj.) consumptive; desolating; ravaging2. blowing (verb) blowing; blundering away; casting away; dribbling away; driveling or drivelling; fooling away; frittering; frivoling away or frivolling away; muddling away; rioting away; throwing away; trifling away3. failing (verb) declining; deteriorating; fading; failing; flagging; languishing; waning; weakening4. missing (verb) losing; missing5. ravaging (verb) depredating; desecrating; desolating; despoiling; devastating; devouring; harrying; pillaging; ravaging; sacking; scourging; spoiling; spoliating; stripping6. wasting (verb) consuming; dissipating; fool away; fritter away; riot away; squandering; throw away; trifle away; wasting
- 1
- 2
См. также в других словарях:
squandering — index consumption, improvident, misapplication, prodigal, profligate (extravagant), profuse, waste … Law dictionary
Squandering — Squander Squan der (skw[o^]n d[ e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squandered} ( d[ e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Squandering}.] [Cf. Scot. squatter to splash water about, to scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqv[ a]tta to squirt, sqv[… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
squandering — squander squan‧der [ˈskwɒndə ǁ ˈskwɑːndər] verb [transitive] to spend money or use your time carelessly on things that are not useful: • The bank squandered $500 million playing the U.S. bond market. squander something on something • He… … Financial and business terms
squandering — noun spending resources lavishly and wastefully more wasteful than the squandering of time • Derivationally related forms: ↑squander • Hypernyms: ↑waste, ↑wastefulness, ↑dissipation • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
squandering — squan·der·ing || skwÉ‘ndÉ™rɪŋ / wÉ’n n. wasteful spending of money or other resources squan·der || skwÉ‘ndÉ™(r) / skwÉ’n n. wasteful spending of money or other resources v. waste money or other resources, fritter away, misuse … English contemporary dictionary
wasting his estate — Squandering one s funds or property or impairing one s own health, and ability to labor and have earnings, by drunkenness and riotous living. 24 Am J2d Div & S § 94 … Ballentine's law dictionary
Criticism of American foreign policy — Further information: Foreign policy of the United States Criticism of United States foreign policy encompasses a wide range of sentiments about its actions and policies over time. Common criticisms King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia with George W. B … Wikipedia
squander — squan‧der [ˈskwɒndə ǁ ˈskwɑːndər] verb [transitive] to spend money or use your time carelessly on things that are not useful: • The bank squandered $500 million playing the U.S. bond market. squander something on something • He squandered the… … Financial and business terms
Squander — Squan der (skw[o^]n d[ e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squandered} ( d[ e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Squandering}.] [Cf. Scot. squatter to splash water about, to scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqv[ a]tta to squirt, sqv[ a]ttra to … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Squandered — Squander Squan der (skw[o^]n d[ e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squandered} ( d[ e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Squandering}.] [Cf. Scot. squatter to splash water about, to scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqv[ a]tta to squirt, sqv[… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
squander — I. verb (squandered; squandering) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1536 transitive verb 1. to spend extravagantly or foolishly ; dissipate, waste < squandered a fortune > 2. to cause to disperse … New Collegiate Dictionary