dissipated living 浪荡生活 a descent into drunkenness and sexual dissipation. 堕落到沉迷酒色。
the squandering of money, energy, or resources 挥霍;消耗 the dissipation of the country's mineral wealth. 对国家矿产资源的浪费。 ■(Physics)loss of energy, especially by its conversion into heat (物理)耗散,散逸;损耗 energy dissipation. 能量损耗。 [count noun]the dissipations in the switch and diode are small. 开关和二极管损耗的能量极少。
语源
late Middle English (in the sense 'complete disintegration'): from Latin dissipatio(n-), from the verb dissipare (see dissipate)