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

• 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。
• 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。
• Instead of lending surplus savings to profligate foreigners, Germans could enjoy higher living standards at home.
  德国不再把多余的储蓄出借给挥霍无度的外国人，本国国民的生活水准就可能显著提高。
• Much of the money that fueled the speculative boom came from profligate Spanish banks.
  在助推投机性繁荣的资金当中，有许多来自肆意挥霍的西班牙银行。
• 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。
• 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？
• The profligate use of our data has become a big concern for many Americans.
  对我们的数据的恣意使用，已经成了许多美国人担心的大问题。
• Germany is demanding changes to the European treaties that would concentrate unprecedented power in Brussels to scrutinise budgets and sanction profligate governments.
  德国正要求对欧盟各项条约进行修订，将空前权力集中至布鲁塞尔，由其对预算进行审查，并对肆意挥霍的政府进行制裁。
• The Germans want a different sort of centralisation, built on rules to punish the profligate.
  德国人想建立另外一种类型的中央集权，建立在对挥霍型政府进行惩罚的原则之上。
• 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。