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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

    adj

    双语例句

    • 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。
    • 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。
    • 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。
    • Profligate deficit countries may have created these viruses. They are not the most vulnerable to it.
      创造出这些病毒的或许是挥霍无度的赤字国,但它们却并非最容易受到冲击的。
    • 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。
    • 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。
    • A profligate use of scarce resources.
      对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。
    • 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。
    • 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。
    • 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。