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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
  她因极其浪费的花钱习惯而出名。
• The striking feature, indeed, is that the worst-hit economies are not those of profligate, high-spending countries, such as the UK and US, but of prudent, high-saving countries, such as Germany and Japan.
  实际上，其中最引人注目的特征是，受冲击最严重的不是肆意挥霍的高支出国家，例如英国和美国，而是一些谨慎的高储蓄国家，例如德国和日本。
• Yet they have something in common: both involve the profligate deployment of resources.
  然而这些行为却有着一些共同之处：它们都牵涉了大肆的资源挥霍。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。