profligacy

英 [ˈprɒflɪɡəsi]

美 [ˈprɑːflɪɡəsi]

n.  挥霍; 浪费

BNC.34527 / COCA.33795

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 挥霍；浪费
  Profligacyis the spending of too much money or the using of too much of something.
  1. ...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
     某些州持续存在的肆意挥霍现象

英英释义

noun

• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
  Synonym:dissipationdissolutionlicentiousnesslooseness
• the trait of spending extravagantly
  Synonym:extravaganceprodigality

双语例句

• There may be a way to combat this credit-card in-duced profligacy.
  可能会有方法来抑制这种信用卡肆意消费。
• The profligacy of the West shocked him.
  西方的极度浪费使他震惊。
• A few years ago most economists argued that the spectacle of poor countries bankrolling America's deficits was the perverse and unsustainable consequence of American profligacy.
  在几年前，大多数经济学都认为，穷国资助美国赤字的壮观景象是美国人肆意挥霍所产生的不正常也不可持续的结果。
• Equally predictably, the surplus countries see things differently, and blame the profligacy and the debt addiction of the debtor countries.
  同样可以预见的是，盈余国家的视角会有所不同，将问题归咎于债务国的铺张浪费和借债上瘾。
• Fourth, the greatest risk of sovereign credit crises comes not from profligacy but slow growth and deflation.
  第四，主权信贷危机的最大风险并非来自肆意挥霍，而是来自增长缓慢和通缩。
• German anger at Greece's profligacy could easily delay the cash it would need should bond markets close.
  但德国不满于希腊的肆意挥霍，这很有可能拖延救助资金的发放从而导致债券市场关闭。
• Many Latin American countries have also shaken off the fiscal and current account profligacy for which the region was once famous, and commodity exporters across the emerging world have benefited from the big rise in food, oil and metals prices.
  许多拉美国家也已经摆脱肆意挥霍财政和经常账户资金的曾有恶名，并且新兴世界的所有大宗商品出口者都已从食品、石油及金属价格的大幅上涨中受益。
• Since any subsidy distorts decisions towards greater profligacy, government debt will probably swell, possibly to unsustainable levels.
  由于任何补贴都可能扭曲政府决策，令其更加倾向于挥霍，政府债务可能会膨胀，乃至上升至不可持续的水平。
• Profligacy is the new prudence.
  挥霍应该是一种新式的审慎。
• Maybe the tide will reverse, now that America has been laid low yet again by the profligacy of its citizens.
  这股潮流或许会逆转&既然美国已再一次被国民的肆意挥霍挫伤了元气。不过这也难说。