profligate
英 ['pr?fl?g?t]
美[pr?fl?ɡ?t]
- adj. 放蕩的，不檢點的；恣意揮霍的
- n. 放蕩者；享樂者
實用場景例句
- profligate spending
- 恣意揮霍的開支
牛津詞典
- ...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world.
- 世界上能源揮霍最嚴重的國家
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Thus the crisis punishes the frugal more than the profligate.
- 如此看來,危機對節儉者的懲罰,要比對恣意揮霍者更為嚴厲.
期刊摘選
- German public opinion is firmly set against the public purse to help the profligate Greeks.
- 德國輿論堅決反對使用其國庫的錢來幫助揮霍的希臘人.
期刊摘選
- But like all the most successful illicit traders, China is ideologically profligate in its relations.
- 就像那些成功的違法交易以一樣, 中國正在享受這種關系帶來的好處.
期刊摘選
- He is a careless profligate.
- 他是個粗枝大葉的浪蕩子.
辭典例句
- Yet they have something in common: both involve the profligate deployment of resources.
- 然而這些行為卻有著一些共同之處: 它們都牽涉了大肆的資源揮霍.
期刊摘選
- It is not: the frugal depend on the profligate.
- 但事實并非如此: 節儉者要依靠揮霍者.
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- Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man and is somehow a little profligate.
- 莉是個女孩,英俊的男人跟異國情調, 不知何故,有點揮霍無度.
期刊摘選
- Similarly Americans have been profligate in the handling of mineral resources.
- 同樣的,美國在處理礦產資源方面亦多浪費.
辭典例句
- He is wicked and profligate.
- 他厚顏無恥,道德敗壞.
辭典例句
- In her profligate life, she lost all sense of decency.
- 在她放蕩的生活中, 她完全喪失了一個正常人的理智.
期刊摘選
- Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy.
- 他們揮霍的生活方式導致的破產.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- Why do you bring your profligate companions here?
- 為什么你要把你那些酒肉朋友帶到這里來 呢 ?
辭典例句
- At a stroke, we would know who was profligate with company money and who was parsimonious.
- 這樣我們一下子就能知道誰在恣意揮霍公司錢財,而誰節儉吝嗇.
期刊摘選
- This young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water.
- 這個青年完全有可能成為十足的浪子.
《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- The young profligate needs to be controlled.
- 他年少狂蕩,需要管教!
期刊摘選
- The region's profligate economies will struggle for longer as austerity kicks in.
- 隨著財政緊縮政策的出臺,那些揮土如金的歐元國家可能將會掙扎更久.
期刊摘選
- As investors focus on that gap, the most profligate rich countries, such as Britain, will suffer.
- 投資者對此極為關注, 最為鋪張浪費的發達國家, 比如英國, 將遭受沉重打擊.
期刊摘選
- The Germans want a different sort of centralisation, built on rules to punish the profligate.
- 德國人希望另一種類型的中央集權, 它建立在對揮霍型政府進行懲罰的原則之上.
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