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
- It is not: the frugal depend on the profligate.
但事实并非如此:节俭者要依靠挥霍者。 - In the money-glut world, however, the world's savers are passive victims, profligate Americans are villains and the Federal Reserve is an anti-hero.
然而,在资金过剩的世界中,世界上的储蓄国是被动受害者,大肆挥霍的美国人是作恶者,而美联储是个反英雄。 - Thus, foreign direct investment, where the project is chosen by the foreign investor directly, makes a positive contribution to growth that financing the liabilities of bad banks or profligate governments does not.
因此,由外国投资者直接挑选项目的外商直接投资,对经济增长作出了积极贡献,而为管理不善的银行或者肆意挥霍的政府提供资金,以偿还其负债,则不可能产生积极影响。 - A profligate use of scarce resources.
对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。 - I don't think that ( United no longer being a PLC) has changed it and I wouldn't want our owners to think we're more profligate under them than we were under the previous regime.
我不认为(曼联不再是股份制)改变了他,我和不希望我们的所有者认为我们在他们的拥有下比原来挥霍。 - But avoiding the sort of profligate spending of the US and UK has not saved Japan, Germany and China from credit bust fallout.
但是,避免美英等国那种大肆消费习惯,并未使日本、德国和中国免受信贷萧条的冲击。 - She recognises the deep hostility of her voters to big fiscal transfers to weaker, more profligate euro-zone countries.
她意识到,对她敌意较深的选民更肆意挥霍欧元区国家的财富。 - Investments in health care, education and energy, however, would bring benefits in the future. But we are not going to be able to go back to our profligate ways.
然而,奥巴马又指出,在医疗保健、教育和能源上的投资会在未来获取收益,但我们将不能返回过去挥霍的生活方式。 - 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。 - Much of the money that fueled the speculative boom came from profligate Spanish banks.
在助推投机性繁荣的资金当中,有许多来自肆意挥霍的西班牙银行。