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

• 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。
• Yet they have something in common: both involve the profligate deployment of resources.
  然而这些行为却有着一些共同之处：它们都牵涉了大肆的资源挥霍。
• 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。
• She recognises the deep hostility of her voters to big fiscal transfers to weaker, more profligate euro-zone countries.
  她意识到，对她敌意较深的选民更肆意挥霍欧元区国家的财富。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A profligate use of scarce resources.
  对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。
• The striking feature, indeed, is that the worst-hit economies are not those of profligate, high-spending countries, such as the UK and US, but of prudent, high-saving countries, such as Germany and Japan.
  实际上，其中最引人注目的特征是，受冲击最严重的不是肆意挥霍的高支出国家，例如英国和美国，而是一些谨慎的高储蓄国家，例如德国和日本。