1. **Waste** （浪费/耗费） -- 最通用词汇，指不合理或低效地使用资源 -- 搭配范围最广：time/money/energy/resources -- 中文对应：浪费（贬义）/耗费（中性） 例：Don't waste water during the drought.（干旱期间不要浪费水）
2. **Squander** （挥霍/糟蹋） -- 强调奢侈浪费，多与金钱/机会等珍贵事物搭配 -- 文学性较强，贬义程度最深 -- 中文对应：挥霍（金钱）/糟蹋（机会/才能） 例：He squandered his inheritance on gambli ...(以上内容有节略,please sign in for more)500
【Waste】 , 【squander】 , 【dissipate】 , 【fritter】 , 【consume】 are comparable when they mean to spend or expend freely or futilely.
【Waste】 often implies careless or prodigal expenditure (as of money or of things which cost money) but it may also imply useless or fruitless expenditure (as of time, talent, or energy).
【Squander】 heightens the implications of 【waste】 by emphasizing reckless or lavish expenditures that tend to deplete or exhaust; often it suggests impoverishment or complete exhaustion.
【Dissipate】 , in the specific sense here considered (see also SCATTER ), implies loss by extravagance, as if what is expended had been scattered to the four winds; it goes further than 【waste】 or 【squander】 , which do not, as does 【dissipate】 , in themselves imply exhaustion or near exhaustion of the store or stock.
【Fritter】 , usually with away , implies expenditure on trifles or by bits; it usually suggests a gradual disappearance (as of money, of property, or of something of value).
【Consume】 basically stresses a devouring or destroying (see also EAT ), (see also MONOPOLIZE ), but it can mean to 【waste】 or 【squander】 entirely as if by devouring. In this use it is decreasingly frequent with regard to money or property, but in reference to time or energy spent unprofitably, it is not uncommon.
