Much of the money was grossly misspent.

很多钱都被挥霍了。

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Money misspent one year is clawed back the next.

今年浪费的钱财要在下一年设法加以弥补。

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And I have the feeling that Mr. Holland considers a great part of his life was misspent.

可是我又感到霍兰德先生认为自己人生的一大半都浪费了。

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My own chronic injury owes to a misspent youth trying to be the next Steve Prefontaine.

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But many of the mechanisms for recovering misspent funds are inadequate, the auditors say.

BBC: Q&A: EU budget woes

Yet it has proved a perennial source of acrimony, and not just because so much of it is misspent (see article).

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