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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

    adj

    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。