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
- 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。 - But United punished them for their early profligacy in the most clinical of fashion.
但是曼联用最好的方式惩罚了他们的浪费。 - 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。 - Fiscal hawks would argue this is the price to pay for the profligacy of the recent past.
财政鹰派可能辩称，这是人们为过去一段时间肆意挥霍付出的代价。 - 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。 - And we have discussed how to chart the right path to steer clear of the dangers of deflation and inflation, prolonged fiscal profligacy and premature frugality.
我们讨论了如何探索正确的道路，规避通胀与通缩、长时间财政浪费和过早节俭的风险。 - 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。 - Maybe the tide will reverse, now that America has been laid low yet again by the profligacy of its citizens.
这股潮流或许会逆转&既然美国已再一次被国民的肆意挥霍挫伤了元气。不过这也难说。 - 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。 - 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。