spendthrift

英 [ˈspendθrɪft]

美 [ˈspendθrɪft]

n.  花钱无度的人; 挥霍者
adj.  浪费的，奢侈的

复数：spendthrifts　

GRE

BNC.34671 / COCA.29234

牛津词典

noun

• 花钱无度的人；挥霍者
  a person who spends too much money or who wastes money

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 挥霍者;浪费金钱的人
  If you call someone aspendthrift, you mean that they spend too much money.
  1. Spendthriftis also an adjective.
     
  2. ...his father's spendthrift ways.
     他父亲挥金如土

英英释义

noun

• someone who spends money prodigally
  Synonym:spend-allspenderscattergood

adj

• recklessly wasteful
  1. prodigal in their expenditures
  Synonym:extravagantprodigalprofligate

双语例句

• And unless your spouse is a complete spendthrift, compromising is a heck of a lot cheaper than a divorce.
  妥协的代价总比离婚要低，除非你的另一半根本就是一个挥霍无度的人。
• The money it subsequently saved was recycled back to the spendthrift West to underpin the easy credit that gave the world subprime mortgages and collateralised debt obligations.
  亚洲后来节省下来的钱，都流回了挥霍的西方，为给世界带来次贷和债务抵押债券（cdo）的宽松信贷提供了资金支持。
• From China's perspective, Mr Obama's emergency measures to stimulate the US economy and persuade Americans to spend their way out of recession smack of re-creating the spendthrift ways that triggered the crisis in the first place.
  在中国看来，奥巴马刺激美国经济以及劝说国人通过消费摆脱衰退的紧急措施，都带着点重蹈覆辙的意味，因为最先引发这场危机的，正是大肆挥霍的消费方式。
• He accused the Council of being spendthrift.
  他指控委员会挥钱财。
• The spendthrift son had once again pulled a fast one on his tight-fisted father.
  那个浪子又一次设计欺骗他吝啬的父亲。
• Those that used to play are playing still, so spendthrift is life.
  常常在游戏的那些人，仍然还在那里游戏，生命总是如此地浪费。
• As a good manager, he would put a stop to such spendthrift courses.
  他既然是一个善于经理钱财的人，就应当阻止这种浪费的行径。
• And he is scathing about the spendthrift ways of the Republican party after 2000-suggesting that it deserved to lose the 2006 midterm elections.
  他对共和党在2000年之后大肆挥霍的做法进行了严厉批评&暗指共和党在2006年中期选举中失利，也是应得的下场。
• If you're a spendthrift picking amate, you might unconsciously be looking for help reining in badspending habits.
  如果你花钱大手大脚，在选择伴侣时可能就不由自主地渴望控制不良支出习惯。
• Even so, the spendthrift cannot afford to wait for economic growth to pull their debt burdens down.
  但即便如此，这个大手惯了的国家等不及用经济增长来减轻债务负担了。