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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 punishing profligate borrowers, they also damage their own citizens.
  在惩罚挥霍无度的债务国的同时，这种做法也伤害了本国民众。
• 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。
• Meanwhile, in the other group there was little inclination either to profligate spending or to good works.
  与此同时，在另外一个小组中却很少发现有肆意挥霍或致力于善行的倾向。
• 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。
• She recognises the deep hostility of her voters to big fiscal transfers to weaker, more profligate euro-zone countries.
  她意识到，对她敌意较深的选民更肆意挥霍欧元区国家的财富。
• 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。