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

• 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。
• Meanwhile, in the other group there was little inclination either to profligate spending or to good works.
  与此同时，在另外一个小组中却很少发现有肆意挥霍或致力于善行的倾向。
• 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。
• She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
  她因极其浪费的花钱习惯而出名。
• But avoiding the sort of profligate spending of the US and UK has not saved Japan, Germany and China from credit bust fallout.
  但是，避免美英等国那种大肆消费习惯，并未使日本、德国和中国免受信贷萧条的冲击。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。