英语释义

• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

• the trait of spending extravagantly

片语

dissipation浪费；消散；[物] 损耗

waste浪费；变消瘦；挥霍钱财

英汉例句

• this is because the profligacy diagnosis is incomplete, and thus misleading.

  这是因为把挥霍浪费作为诊断结果是不全面的、误导性的。

• when the crisis hit last year, there were plenty of calls to reduce chinese exposure and punish us profligacy by dumping dollar assets.

  去年金融危机爆发时，有不少人呼吁中国减持美元资产，用抛出美元资产来惩罚美国的恣意挥霍。

• any promise, tacit or otherwise, of a bail-out by others would only encourage more profligacy (a view that mirrors ford’s initial stance towards new york).

  任何对救助的承诺，心照不宣的或不是，都只会鼓励更多的浪费（看看福特最初的相对纽约的位置）。

• debt in these countries has become a burden not because of government profligacy but because each enjoyed a decade of low interest rates and was then hit by the financial crisis.

  这些国家的债务已经成为了一种负担，不是由于政府的挥霍，而是因为每一个国家都享受十年的低利息之后才受到金融危机的沖击。

• german anger at greece’s profligacy could easily delay the cash it would need should bond markets close.

  但德国不满于希腊的肆意挥霍，这很有可能拖延救助资金的发放从而导致债券市场关闭。

• maybe the tide will reverse, now that america has been laid low yet again by the profligacy of its citizens. but don't bet on it.

  这股潮流或许会逆转——既然美国已再一次被国民的肆意挥霍挫伤了元气。不过这也难说。

• in the desert all around are the lush golf courses and artificial pools squandering a finite, life-giving commodity, offering a kind of gleeful profligacy to those willing to pay.

  沙漠周围是郁郁葱葱的高尔夫场和人工池塘，挥霍着有限的、浪费生命的商品，为那些愿意付钱的人提供一种令其欣喜的放蕩。

• hugo chávez, the leftist president, blames the profligacy of consumers and a drought caused by el niño weather.

  左派总统hugo chávez将矛头指向消费者的浪费能源，以及圣婴（elniño）天气引起的干旱。

• and we have discussed how to chart the right path to steer clear of the dangers of deflation and inflation, prolonged fiscal profligacy and premature frugality.

  我们讨论了如何探索正确的道路，规避通胀与通缩、长时间财政浪费和过早节俭的风险。

• such profligacy would make the contributions of early farmers large enough to have an effect on worldwide levels of greenhouse gases.

  如此的肆意耕作便得早期农民足以影响全球温室气体的含量。

• the difference to them is that the jruby libraries are generally quite small, in the case of profligacy currently 200 lines of code, with no 3rd party dependencies.

  与它们的区别则是，jruby的类库一般来说块头都非常小，目前在profligacy的例子里只有200行代码，并且还不存在对第三方类库的依赖。

• thanks to chancellor brown’s profligacy and overoptimism in the good years, government borrowing as a share of gdp is forecast by the imf to be the highest in the entire g20 in 2010.

  「多亏」首相布朗在经济景气的时候肆意挥霍和过于乐观，国际货币基金组织（imf）预测2010年英国的政府开支占其gdp的比重将会是二十国集团中最高的。

• if profligacy is the problem, the argument goes, austerity is the solution, with public thrift serving to rebuild investor confidence.

  舆论称，假设挥霍浪费是问题所在，紧缩即是解决方法，应通过公众节省来重建投资者的信心。

• the euro zone’s governments must find ways to impose good behaviour long before the profligacy becomes acute.

  欧元区政府必须寻求在政府肆意挥霍现形以前就强制她们向善的方法。

• some of the outrage is understandable – who does not believe that profligacy in the us was at the heart of the crisis?

  其中的一些愤怒是可以理解的——谁不认为危机的核心是美国的挥霍无度？

相似词

extravagance奢侈，浪费；过度；放肆的言行

freedom(Freedom)人名；(英)弗里德姆

license许可；特许；发许可证给

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morality道德；品行，美德

virtue(Virtue)人名；(英)弗丘