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

• The striking feature, indeed, is that the worst-hit economies are not those of profligate, high-spending countries, such as the UK and US, but of prudent, high-saving countries, such as Germany and Japan.
  实际上，其中最引人注目的特征是，受冲击最严重的不是肆意挥霍的高支出国家，例如英国和美国，而是一些谨慎的高储蓄国家，例如德国和日本。
• A profligate use of scarce resources.
  对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。
• But China and the continental European countries, led by Germany, argue it is all the fault of profligate deficit countries.
  但中国和以德国为首的欧洲大陆国家辩称，一切都应归咎于恣意挥霍的赤字国家。
• 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。
• In the money-glut world, however, the world's savers are passive victims, profligate Americans are villains and the Federal Reserve is an anti-hero.
  然而，在资金过剩的世界中，世界上的储蓄国是被动受害者，大肆挥霍的美国人是作恶者，而美联储是个反英雄。
• 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。
• In her profligate life, she lost all sense of decency.
  在她放荡的生活中，她完全丧失了一个正常人的理智。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。