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

• 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。
• In the money-glut world, however, the world's savers are passive victims, profligate Americans are villains and the Federal Reserve is an anti-hero.
  然而，在资金过剩的世界中，世界上的储蓄国是被动受害者，大肆挥霍的美国人是作恶者，而美联储是个反英雄。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I don't think that ( United no longer being a PLC) has changed it and I wouldn't want our owners to think we're more profligate under them than we were under the previous regime.
  我不认为（曼联不再是股份制）改变了他，我和不希望我们的所有者认为我们在他们的拥有下比原来挥霍。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。