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
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.- Spendthriftis also an adjective.
- ...his father's spendthrift ways.
他父亲挥金如土
- Spendthriftis also an adjective.
英英释义
noun
- someone who spends money prodigally
adj
- recklessly wasteful
- prodigal in their expenditures
双语例句
- 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。 - Every year the avenue is more lustrously paved with the gold of a million spendthrift tourists from mainland China.
每年都会有大量来自中国内地的游客，他们挥金如土，给条大街撒下的黄金让它更加炫目。 - He accused the Council of being spendthrift.
他指控委员会挥钱财。 - What a spendthrift! All the money he makes goes on new ears.
他真是个花钱如流水的人！挣的钱都用来购置新车。 - The oil industry, given half a chance, is inefficient and spendthrift.
石油行业只要稍有机会就会变得低效和挥霍无度。 - 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。 - 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。 - If you are a spendthrift, you set a poor example that others will copy – with the company's money.
如果你大手大脚，就会为别人树立一个效仿的坏榜样&用公司的钱。 - One of Turan's complaints: "All that money also allowed spendthrift Spider-Man3 to acquire too many villains" including an egomaniacal Spider-Man alter ego himself.
图兰也抱怨道“所有那些投资金促使挥霍无度的《蜘蛛侠3》请来了太多的恶棍”，其中包括一个转变成极端利己分子的蜘蛛侠。 - My mother warned me about marrying a spendthrift.
我妈妈告诫我，不要与挥霍金钱的人结婚。