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But she said Iran had so far squandered the opportunity.
但赖斯说，到目前为止，伊朗浪费了这一机会。
I do not know that you have that much time left. So much of it has already been squandered.
我不认为你还有那麽多时间，先前已经浪费太多了。
If it takes a company a year to get up to speed, that is one year of lost sales-and a year of patent protection squandered.
如果一家公司花费了一年时间步入正轨，那就是一年销售额的损失——也是一年专利保护期的损失。
He lost again, leaving him with close to nothing. He felt sick -- he had squandered nearly a week's earnings.
他感到自己像一个病人——因为这场病使他失去了一个星期的收入。
But Africa's slaving kings and entrepreneurs seem to have squandered their profits. They left no great political or commercial empires.
但是非洲的奴隶酋长和贩奴者们看来白白浪费了到手的利润，没留下任何政治或商业帝国。
But I worry that so much of this potential spirit of enterprise is squandered, thanks to the deadening hand of the state.
但我担心，很多此类潜在的企业家精神，会因为政府的压制而白白流失。
The dog-fighting scandal left my son shaking his head that such a brilliant talent could be so thoroughly squandered.
维克的斗狗丑闻令我的儿子摇头叹息：他竟然如此浪费自己的才华。
Most of all, it meant a few final, precious months of well-squandered youth before I would at last have to break down and "get a real job. "
最重要的是，这意味着生活的底线，在我最终面临崩溃并“找到一份真正的工作”前，我有好几个月的时间做一个浪费青春年轻人。
He took the ivory back to Benares, sold it, and squandered the money as before.
他带着象牙回到贝拿勒斯，卖掉象牙，然后如前一样大肆挥霍。
It would be a pity were the opportunity to be squandered because of a thirst for retribution.
如果有些人因为渴望报复而浪费这个机遇，那将十分可惜。