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
- 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。 - A profligate use of scarce resources.
对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The Germans want a different sort of centralisation, built on rules to punish the profligate.
德国人想建立另外一种类型的中央集权,建立在对挥霍型政府进行惩罚的原则之上。 - Germany is demanding changes to the European treaties that would concentrate unprecedented power in Brussels to scrutinise budgets and sanction profligate governments.
德国正要求对欧盟各项条约进行修订,将空前权力集中至布鲁塞尔,由其对预算进行审查,并对肆意挥霍的政府进行制裁。 - In punishing profligate borrowers, they also damage their own citizens.
在惩罚挥霍无度的债务国的同时,这种做法也伤害了本国民众。 - 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。