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
- And he is scathing about the spendthrift ways of the Republican party after 2000-suggesting that it deserved to lose the 2006 midterm elections.
他对共和党在2000年之后大肆挥霍的做法进行了严厉批评&暗指共和党在2006年中期选举中失利,也是应得的下场。 - My father tells me I'm too much of a spendthrift.
我父亲说我太浪费了。 - Spendthrift, who had wasted his fortune, and had nothing left but the clothes in which he stood, saw a swallow one fine day in early spring.
有一个败家子,已挥霍完他所有的财产,就剩下身上穿的衣服了。早春的一个晴天,他看到了一只燕子。 - 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。 - 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。 - But the bonanza also risks feeding some Brazilian vices: a spendthrift and corrupt political system;
但是这一幸运之事也可能助长巴西某些社会恶习的滋生:一个挥霍无度并腐败的政体; - In the end, however, spendthrift consumers defied the government.
然而,结果是挥霍无度的消费者公然和政府作对。 - If anything, it is Beijing some of whose officials now privately boast they have nothing at all to learn from the Great Spendthrift that has the upper hand.
总之,北京占了上风。中国某些官员现在私下夸耀,美国这个大挥霍者根本没有什么值得他们学习的。 - The relation of parent to child. He disowned his spendthrift son.
父母对孩子之间的关系他与挥金如土的儿子脱离父子关系。 - As a good manager, he would put a stop to such spendthrift courses.
他既然是一个善于经理钱财的人,就应当阻止这种浪费的行径。