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

• 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。
• Profligate deficit countries may have created these viruses. They are not the most vulnerable to it.
  创造出这些病毒的或许是挥霍无度的赤字国，但它们却并非最容易受到冲击的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Some ( mostly Germany) want a tough new regime to punish the profligate.
  一些国家（主要是德国）希望建立新的严厉的体制，以惩罚挥霍者。
• Why do you bring your profligate companions here?
  为什么你要把你那些酒肉朋友带到这里来呢？
• 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。
• During the past decade, profligate government spending, tax cuts for the wealthy, two wars and the recession turned a record surplus into a yawning deficit.
  在以前的十年中，肆意挥霍的政府开支、对敷裕阶级的减税、两场战争和经济衰退把一个创历史记载的盈利并成了一个重大的赤字。
• 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。
• A profligate use of scarce resources.
  对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。