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.- ...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
某些州持续存在的肆意挥霍现象
- ...the continuing profligacy of certain states.
英英释义
noun
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- the trait of spending extravagantly
双语例句
- There was tut-tutting about American profligacy.
中国对美国的肆意挥霍发出了不满的啧啧声。 - Deficit countries cannot be expected to spend their way into bankruptcy, while surplus countries condemn as profligacy the spending from which their exporters benefit so much.
不可能指望赤字国家花钱花到破产，同时，顺差国家还在指责这是铺张浪费，尽管它们的出口企业从中获利丰厚。 - Neither should we expect the "return" of American consumers indeed, we should worry at their reappearance, for what it says about both their rationality and a financial system that facilitates such profligacy.
我们也不应指望美国消费者的“回归”，实际上，他们回归才让人担忧，因为这既说明了他们的理性问题，也说明了金融体系为这种挥霍行为提供了方便。 - The Gilded Age was one of extreme profligacy, both in business investment and sumptuous expenditure.
不管是商业投资、还是豪华消费，镀金时代（GildedAge）都算得上极度挥霍的时期之一。 - The profligacy of the West shocked him.
西方的极度浪费使他震惊。 - 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。 - IN GERMAN EYES this crisis is all about profligacy.
在德国人看来，这场危机全因挥霍而起。 - 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。 - There is more to the story than an angry collision between Greek profligacy and German moral superiority.
这件事不仅仅是希腊人的挥霍无度和德国人的道德优越感之间的迎头怒撞。 - Third, investors panicking about the eurozone or US profligacy had to buy something when selling euros and dollars.
第三，对欧元区或美国的挥霍感到恐慌的投资者们在抛售欧元和美元后，总得买点什么。