profligate
英 [ˈprɒflɪɡət]
美 [ˈprɑːflɪɡət]
adj. 挥霍的; 浪费的
复数:profligates
BNC.22405 / COCA.24410
牛津词典
adj.
- 挥霍的;浪费的
using money, time, materials, etc. in a careless way- profligate spending
恣意挥霍的开支
- profligate spending
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 挥霍的;浪费的
Someone who isprofligatespends too much money or uses too much of something.- ...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world.
世界上能源挥霍最严重的国家
- ...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world.
英英释义
noun
- a recklessly extravagant consumer
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
adj
- unrestrained by convention or morality
- Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
- deplorably dissipated and degraded
- riotous living
- fast women
- recklessly wasteful
- prodigal in their expenditures
双语例句
- And Qaddafi's profligate weapons purchases have left Libya with mountains of unsecured armaments.
卡扎菲购买的大量武器装备保管不善,给利比亚留下了许多毫无戒备的武器库。 - This young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water.
这个青年完全有可能成为十足的浪子。 - Yet they have something in common: both involve the profligate deployment of resources.
然而这些行为却有着一些共同之处:它们都牵涉了大肆的资源挥霍。 - Similarly Americans have been profligate in the handling of mineral resources.
同样的,美国在处理矿产资源方面亦多浪费。 - The striking feature, indeed, is that the worst-hit economies are not those of profligate, high-spending countries, such as the UK and US, but of prudent, high-saving countries, such as Germany and Japan.
实际上,其中最引人注目的特征是,受冲击最严重的不是肆意挥霍的高支出国家,例如英国和美国,而是一些谨慎的高储蓄国家,例如德国和日本。 - Meanwhile, in the other group there was little inclination either to profligate spending or to good works.
与此同时,在另外一个小组中却很少发现有肆意挥霍或致力于善行的倾向。 - Why do you bring your profligate companions here?
为什么你要把你那些酒肉朋友带到这里来呢? - Profligate deficit countries may have created these viruses. They are not the most vulnerable to it.
创造出这些病毒的或许是挥霍无度的赤字国,但它们却并非最容易受到冲击的。 - The profligate use of our data has become a big concern for many Americans.
对我们的数据的恣意使用,已经成了许多美国人担心的大问题。 - She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
她因极其浪费的花钱习惯而出名。