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

• 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。
• It is not: the frugal depend on the profligate.
  但事实并非如此：节俭者要依靠挥霍者。
• 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 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。
• Seventh, the reduction of global imbalances implies that the current account deficits of profligate economies, such as the US, will narrow the surpluses of countries that over-save ( China and other emerging markets, Germany and Japan).
  第七，全球失衡状况有所改善，意味着美国等大肆挥霍的经济体的经常账户赤字，将使得那些过度储蓄国家（中国及其它新兴市场、德国和日本）的盈余收窄。
• Thus, foreign direct investment, where the project is chosen by the foreign investor directly, makes a positive contribution to growth that financing the liabilities of bad banks or profligate governments does not.
  因此，由外国投资者直接挑选项目的外商直接投资，对经济增长作出了积极贡献，而为管理不善的银行或者肆意挥霍的政府提供资金，以偿还其负债，则不可能产生积极影响。
• 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。
• And Qaddafi's profligate weapons purchases have left Libya with mountains of unsecured armaments.
  卡扎菲购买的大量武器装备保管不善，给利比亚留下了许多毫无戒备的武器库。
• 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。
• 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。