Would you believe it? He thought a moment, and then said, gloomily, "Well, no. Half cured now. Seen the lover in time." So that opportunity was frittered away.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Old Mr. Meditation, the father, was sprung of a poor but honest and industrious stock in the city. He had not had many talents or opportunities to begin with, but he had made the very best of the two he had. And then, when the two estates of Mr. Fritter-day and Mr. Let-good-slip were sequestered to the crown, the advisers of the crown handed over those two neglected estates to Mr. Meditation to improve them for the common good, and after him to his son, whose name we know. The steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord, and He delighteth in his way.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
A little way from the gate there was a breach in the wall. The masons were working at it in the daytime, and at night a sentinel was posted on it, to prevent smugglers from getting in. All through one day I saw Lillas Pastia going backward and forward near the guard-room, and talking to some of my comrades. They all knew him well, and his fried- fish and fritters even better. He came up to me, and asked if I had any news of Carmen. " 'No,' said I. " 'Well,' said he, 'you'll soon hear of her, old fellow.'
"He was not mistaken. That night I was posted to guard the breach in the wall.英文原著 · 《Carmen》
"Not to remember it; but Mac and Steve have, and liked it immensely," answered Archie, thereby causing the two mentioned to neglect Debby's delectable fritters for several minutes, while they cudgelled their brains.英文原著 · 《Eight Cousins》
His brain is inexhaustible. He is equipped for any emergency. There is nothing which he might not attain, if he would only apply himself, but he fritters himself away. He sticks to nothing. He touches on this, that, and the other, and falls off. True, O Philosophers, he does stick to nothing, but condemn him not too harshly. It is the old difficulty of the square man in the round hole, and the round man in the square hole. They never did rest easy there since time began, and never will.英文原著 · 《Gala-Days》
You must forgive me if sometimes I become a little magniloquent;--for really, amid the grandeur of that fresh primaeval world, it was almost impossible to prevent one's imagination from absorbing a dash of the local colouring. We seemed to have suddenly waked up among the colossal scenery of Keats' Hyperion. The pulses of young Titans beat within our veins. Time itself,--no longer frittered down into paltry divisions,--had assumed a more majestic aspect. We had the appetite of giants--was it unnatural we should also adopt "the large utterance of the early gods?"英文原著 · 《Letters From High Latitudes》
BoJack, your book talked a lot about how much you love apple fritters.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
You know, we would love to fritter away our days with manicures and hairdressers and spa appointments, but we're not like you. We have lives.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
No! Listen to me, and take those kidneys up to the server before I knock you down and serve your brains as fritters!美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
They had a beautiful ceremony where sweetened fritters and doughnuts were prepared美剧 · 《White Collar》