spendthrift

英 [ˈspendθrɪft]

美 [ˈspendθrɪft]

n.  花钱无度的人; 挥霍者
adj.  浪费的，奢侈的

复数：spendthrifts　

GRE

BNC.34671 / COCA.29234

牛津词典

noun

• 花钱无度的人；挥霍者
  a person who spends too much money or who wastes money

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 挥霍者;浪费金钱的人
  If you call someone aspendthrift, you mean that they spend too much money.
  1. Spendthriftis also an adjective.
     
  2. ...his father's spendthrift ways.
     他父亲挥金如土

英英释义

noun

• someone who spends money prodigally
  Synonym:spend-allspenderscattergood

adj

• recklessly wasteful
  1. prodigal in their expenditures
  Synonym:extravagantprodigalprofligate

双语例句

• My mother always told me not to be a spendthrift.
  我母亲经常告诉我不大手大脚。
• The relation of parent to child. He disowned his spendthrift son.
  父母对孩子之间的关系他与挥金如土的儿子脱离父子关系。
• He accused the Council of being spendthrift.
  他指控委员会挥钱财。
• How long will emerging economies continue to finance america's spendthrift habits?
  新兴经济体还会为美国的挥霍无度埋单多久？
• My father tells me I'm too much of a spendthrift.
  我父亲说我太浪费了。
• My mother warned me about marrying a spendthrift.
  我妈妈告诫我，不要与挥霍金钱的人结婚。
• From China's perspective, Mr Obama's emergency measures to stimulate the US economy and persuade Americans to spend their way out of recession smack of re-creating the spendthrift ways that triggered the crisis in the first place.
  在中国看来，奥巴马刺激美国经济以及劝说国人通过消费摆脱衰退的紧急措施，都带着点重蹈覆辙的意味，因为最先引发这场危机的，正是大肆挥霍的消费方式。
• If anything, it is Beijing some of whose officials now privately boast they have nothing at all to learn from the Great Spendthrift that has the upper hand.
  总之，北京占了上风。中国某些官员现在私下夸耀，美国这个大挥霍者根本没有什么值得他们学习的。
• He disowned his spendthrift son.
  他与挥金如土的儿子脱离父子关系。
• One of Turan's complaints: "All that money also allowed spendthrift Spider-Man3 to acquire too many villains" including an egomaniacal Spider-Man alter ego himself.
  图兰也抱怨道“所有那些投资金促使挥霍无度的《蜘蛛侠3》请来了太多的恶棍”，其中包括一个转变成极端利己分子的蜘蛛侠。