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

• Even so, the spendthrift cannot afford to wait for economic growth to pull their debt burdens down.
  但即便如此，这个大手惯了的国家等不及用经济增长来减轻债务负担了。
• But the bonanza also risks feeding some Brazilian vices: a spendthrift and corrupt political system;
  但是这一幸运之事也可能助长巴西某些社会恶习的滋生：一个挥霍无度并腐败的政体；
• What a spendthrift! All the money he makes goes on new ears.
  他真是个花钱如流水的人！挣的钱都用来购置新车。
• As a good manager, he would put a stop to such spendthrift courses.
  他既然是一个善于经理钱财的人，就应当阻止这种浪费的行径。
• Every year the avenue is more lustrously paved with the gold of a million spendthrift tourists from mainland China.
  每年都会有大量来自中国内地的游客，他们挥金如土，给条大街撒下的黄金让它更加炫目。
• Everybody knows the US dollar is in decline, but China has to keep buying US treasury bills-using the Chinese people's hard-earned money to foot the bill for the spendthrift America.
  面对人人皆知的「没落中的美元」，中国还要动用外汇储备不断买入美国债券，广大中国人民胼手胝足、辛勤所得，就这样替挥霍无度的美国埋单。
• Those that used to play are playing still, so spendthrift is life.
  常常在游戏的那些人，仍然还在那里游戏，生命总是如此地浪费。
• My mother always told me not to be a spendthrift.
  我母亲经常告诉我不大手大脚。
• The spendthrift son had once again pulled a fast one on his tight-fisted father.
  那个浪子又一次设计欺骗他吝啬的父亲。
• 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？