虚度年华 meaning in English
waste one's life; flounder around; idle away one's precious time; idle away one's youth; pass the years in vain; pass one's youthful days in vain; spend one's days vainly; spend vainly the best of one's days; waste one's youth in worthless pursuits
Examples
- She just sits by the window and dreams away .
她只是坐在窗前虚度年华。 - Even then he was never idle .
就在那时，他也没虚度年华。 - I'm wasting my life in this place .
我是在这里虚度年华。 - I was fiddling in the fields .
我在田地里虚度年华。 - He wasted his time in the vain pleasures of smoking and drinking .
他在吸烟喝酒这种空虚的快乐中虚度年华。