How many minutes can one organisation fritter away on this nonsense?

一个组织可以在这些废话上费多少分钟？

But we're actually happier if we make plans and don't passively fritter away time.

但如果我们制定计划并且不被动地费时间，我们实际上会更快乐。

" I don't like you frittering away my brass handles all over Kent, " Kindness grumbled.

“我不喜欢你把我的黄铜手柄弄得满地都是肯特，”怨道。

We spent them and traded them and frittered them away on drink and food and pleasurable company.

用来买东西，兑换，我们将那些金子挥霍在酒食品还有寻欢乐上。

The third is to be certain that the temperature gradient which that badly conducting material creates is not frittered away by poor design.

第三是确保那种导热性差的材料产生的温度变化率不因为设计缺陷而费。

Women have seldom sufficient serious employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits, frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

妇女很少有足够严肃的工来平息她们的感情；一轮小事，或无谓的追求，耗尽了心力和器官，自然成为感官的对象。

FTX is good for the cash not because it was always solvent, but because administrators have clawed back assets that its last chief executive frittered away, argues John Ray III, the firm's current boss.

该公司现任老板约翰·雷三世 (John Ray III) 认为， FTX 对现金有利， 不是因为它始终具有偿付能力，而是因为管理人员收回了其上一任首席执行官挥霍掉的资产。

Poor Eleseus, all set on end and frittered away. Better, maybe, if he'd worked on the land all the time, but now he's a man that has learned to write and use letters; no grip in him, no depth.

可怜的 Eleseus 焦头烂额，挥霍无度。如果他一直在这片土地上工，也许会更好，但现在他已经学会了书写和使用字母；他没有把握，没有深度。

We worry about wasting money on a cup of coffee every day, and how that adds up, when we should be just as concerned about all those minutes we frittered away that could have been used to make us happier.

我们担心每天在一杯咖啡上费钱，而且这会增加多少，而我们应该同样关心我们费的所有那些本来可以用来让我们更快乐的时间。