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
- 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。 - But China and the continental European countries, led by Germany, argue it is all the fault of profligate deficit countries.
但中国和以德国为首的欧洲大陆国家辩称,一切都应归咎于恣意挥霍的赤字国家。 - 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? - 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。 - 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。 - Some ( mostly Germany) want a tough new regime to punish the profligate.
一些国家(主要是德国)希望建立新的严厉的体制,以惩罚挥霍者。 - 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。 - 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。 - In her profligate life, she lost all sense of decency.
在她放荡的生活中,她完全丧失了一个正常人的理智。 - 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。