profligate

英 [ˈprɒflɪɡət]

美 [ˈprɑːflɪɡət]

adj.  挥霍的; 浪费的

复数：profligates　

GRE

BNC.22405 / COCA.24410

牛津词典

adj.

• 挥霍的；浪费的
  using money, time, materials, etc. in a careless way
  1. profligate spending
     恣意挥霍的开支

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.
  1. ...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world.
     世界上能源挥霍最严重的国家

英英释义

noun

• a recklessly extravagant consumer
  Synonym:prodigalsquanderer
• a dissolute man in fashionable society
  Synonym:rakerakehellripbloodroue

adj

• unrestrained by convention or morality
  1. Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
  2. deplorably dissipated and degraded
  3. riotous living
  4. fast women
  Synonym:debaucheddegeneratedegradeddissipateddissolutelibertineriotousfast
• recklessly wasteful
  1. prodigal in their expenditures
  Synonym:extravagantprodigalspendthrift

双语例句

• She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
  她因极其浪费的花钱习惯而出名。
• Before the credit crisis started to brew, investors were almost as keen to own the public debt of profligate Italy as that of prudent Germany.
  就在信贷危机爆发之前，投资者对挥霍无度的意大利公债的热情甚至不亚于对节俭的德国国债的热衷。
• Instead of lending surplus savings to profligate foreigners, Germans could enjoy higher living standards at home.
  德国不再把多余的储蓄出借给挥霍无度的外国人，本国国民的生活水准就可能显著提高。
• 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。
• And Qaddafi's profligate weapons purchases have left Libya with mountains of unsecured armaments.
  卡扎菲购买的大量武器装备保管不善，给利比亚留下了许多毫无戒备的武器库。
• 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。
• During the past decade, profligate government spending, tax cuts for the wealthy, two wars and the recession turned a record surplus into a yawning deficit.
  在以前的十年中，肆意挥霍的政府开支、对敷裕阶级的减税、两场战争和经济衰退把一个创历史记载的盈利并成了一个重大的赤字。
• I don't think that ( United no longer being a PLC) has changed it and I wouldn't want our owners to think we're more profligate under them than we were under the previous regime.
  我不认为（曼联不再是股份制）改变了他，我和不希望我们的所有者认为我们在他们的拥有下比原来挥霍。
• It is not: the frugal depend on the profligate.
  但事实并非如此：节俭者要依靠挥霍者。
• Northern Europeans resent a monetary union that has permitted southern Europe to engage in what they see as fiscally profligate behaviour, while southern Europeans and the Irish are required to submit to extreme austerity programmes that exacerbate their sovereign debt problems.
  欧洲北部国家对货币联盟感到不满，因为它允许欧洲南部国家从事被其视为财政挥霍的行为。同时欧洲南部国家和爱尔兰被要求实施极端的紧缩计划，这加剧了它们的主权债务问题。