Without it, I could have neglected an important battle or misspent my energy.

如果没有它，我可能会忽视一场重要的战斗，或者浪费我的精力。

The group was intended as a one-shot deal—we would play two shows at the American Booksellers Convention, get a few laughs, recapture our misspent youth for three or four hours, then go our separate ways.

当时乐队只打算做个一锤子买卖——我全美书商大会上演出两场，逗大伙乐乐，用那三四个钟头的时间重温一番我虚度的青春岁月，然后就各走各路。

Opponents of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan have accused his government of not enforcing building regulations and of misspending taxes levied after the last major earthquake to make buildings more quake resistant.

土耳其总统塔伊普·埃尔多安的反对者指责埃尔多安政府没有严格执行建筑法规，且滥用上一次大地震后征收的税款，这些税款本应用于提高建筑物的抗震能力。

One, when she said, well, maybe 5% was misspent or 10%.

她说到，好吧，也许有5%是被滥用的，或者是10%。

So I, in my misspent youth, I went to law school.

所以，我那段荒废的青春岁月里，我上了法学院。

Some also tried to draw the connection to recent comments from Mark Zuckerberg on a podcast where he said, if we end up misspending a couple of hundred billion dollars, I think that is going to be very unfortunate, obviously.

一些人还试图将此与马克·扎克伯格播客中的言论联系起来，他当时说：“如果我终浪费了几千亿美元，我认为这显然会是非常不幸的。”

But the fourth part of the story is just the tip of the iceberg here, because amazingly, from 2016 to 2019, at least $77 million in federal welfare money was stolen or misspent in Mississippi.

然而， 故事的第四部分仅仅是冰山一角，因为令人震惊的是， 从2016年到2019年，至少有7700万美元的联邦福利资金密西西比州被盗窃或滥用。

He's just misspent a pile of cash and all his soldiers and material on a war where he's going to get nothing if he wins.

他只是一场战争中浪费了一大笔钱、所有的士兵和物资，即使赢了也一无所获。

" Generally, I think the govt has misspent our money." " Misspent" means spent it in the wrong way or in a bad way.

“通常来说，我认为政府误用了我的钱。”“误用”意味着以错误的方式或不好的方式花掉了钱。

To this day, we can laugh for hours over stories of our misspent youth.

直到今天，我仍然可以为我度过的青春故事而笑上几个小时。

Some of our government expenditures have certainly been misspent, both at home and abroad, and our national debt is nothing to celebrate.

我的政府支出国内外确实存一些浪费现象，而且我的国债问题也不容乐观。

And look, any aggressive transition to home based care is going to need rigorous guardrails and oversight to make sure that money is not misspent just in a different way.

而且，任何向家庭护理的激进转型都需要严格的监管和监督机制，以确保资金不会以另一种方式被滥用。