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

• 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。
• Seventh, the reduction of global imbalances implies that the current account deficits of profligate economies, such as the US, will narrow the surpluses of countries that over-save ( China and other emerging markets, Germany and Japan).
  第七，全球失衡状况有所改善，意味着美国等大肆挥霍的经济体的经常账户赤字，将使得那些过度储蓄国家（中国及其它新兴市场、德国和日本）的盈余收窄。
• 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。
• Some ( mostly Germany) want a tough new regime to punish the profligate.
  一些国家（主要是德国）希望建立新的严厉的体制，以惩罚挥霍者。
• 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。
• A profligate use of scarce resources.
  对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Why do you bring your profligate companions here?
  为什么你要把你那些酒肉朋友带到这里来呢？