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 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。
• But if he is to tackle all or any of this, he must balance his plans with other savings or new revenues if his legacy is not to be one of profligacy and debt.
  如果他想解决上述全部或部分问题，他必须用在其它地方省下来的钱，或者新的收入来为他的这些计划买单–如果他不希望自己留下的遗产是挥霍浪费或巨额债务的话。
• 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 former will soon discover they cannot do without the profligacy of the latter.
  不过前者很快就会意识到，它们离不开后者的肆意挥霍。
• 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。
• Thus Scotland would have an incentive towards profligacy that the rest of the UK would not.
  因此，苏格兰有动机趋向挥霍，英国其余地区则没有。
• 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。
• The Asians 'parsimony made the Anglo-Saxons' profligacy possible.
  亚洲人的过度节约给盎格鲁撒克逊人创造了肆意挥霍的可能性。
• 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。
• China's overall surplus and America's overall deficit have less to do with the value of the yuan than with Chinese saving and American profligacy.
  中国的全部顺差和美国的全部逆差同（人民币）元的价值的关联要小于同中国人储蓄和美国人挥霍的关联。