商务英语：今日热词——白白浪费

难懂的话，行业术语

(noun) Unclear, pompous, and wordy language used and understood only by experts, and incomprehensible to ordinary people. (NOTE: "to baffle" means "to confuse")

例句

EXAMPLE: I want my doctor to explain my health problems to me in words I can understand, not in obscure medical bafflegab.

我想让医生用我能懂的词语而不是晦涩的医学术语解释我的健康问题。

白白浪费

Informal expression describing wasted time or money.

EXAMPLE: 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.

我们在新发明上花了两年时间，投入了大量资金，但这个发明无法正常运行，现在，我们的努力全都白费了。