He joked that being good at cards was the sign of a misspent youth (= having wasted his time when he was young) .

他開(kāi)玩笑地說(shuō)擅長(zhǎng)打牌表明虛度了青春年華。

牛津詞典

Much of the money was grossly misspent...

大部分的錢都被大筆揮霍掉了。

Ruby recalled getting stoned during her misspent youth.

魯比還記得，在虛度光陰的少女時(shí)代她曾經(jīng)因?yàn)槲扯酒范h飄欲仙。

A clean house is a sign of a misspent life.

一間干凈的房子是一個(gè)浪費(fèi)的人生的標(biāo)志.

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It is misspent time to calculate and report hemagglutinating titers for cell hybrid studies.

在細(xì)胞雜交過(guò)程中計(jì)算和報(bào)道血球凝集的滴定度是浪費(fèi)時(shí)間.

辭典例句

Money misspent one year is clawed back the next.

今年浪費(fèi)的錢財(cái)要在下一年設(shè)法加以彌補(bǔ).

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