每日商務英語 第37期:白白浪費

down the drain白白浪費

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英文釋義

Informal expression describing wasted time or money.

例句

We invested two years and a lot of money into our new invention, but it never worked properly, and now we feel that our efforts were all down the drain.

我們在新發明上花了兩年時間，投入了大量資金，但這個發明無法正常運行，現在，我們的努力全都白費了。