英语释义

• a recklessly extravagant consumer

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

• unrestrained by convention or morality;

  "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"

  "deplorably dissipated and degraded"

  "riotous living"

  "fast women"

• recklessly wasteful;

  "prodigal in their expenditures"

片语

The Profligate Son败家子

Profligate spendig享乐者的花费

roue放蕩者；享乐者

a profligate败家子

dissolute放蕩的；风流的

Prudent Profligate谨慎者

squanderer放蕩者；挥霍者

Profligate flig搅拌

prodigal profligate wastrel spendthrift四大挥霍

profligate roue享乐者

gay(Gay)人名；(西)加伊；(英、法、瑞典、毛里塔)盖伊

英汉例句

• and it hascost him repeatedly: in 2007, he was stripped of his main committee assignmentby his own party for being too critical of profligate spending by republicanswhen they were in power.

  他也因此不断付出了代价：2007年，他被自己的政党剥夺了在主要委员会的职务，因为他在共和党人当权期间对共和党的挥霍浪费进行了过于严厉的批评。

• spain has neither ireland’s broken banks nor greece’s profligate public finances.

  西班牙也没有爱尔兰的破产银行或是希腊过于挥霍的公共财政。

• where labour presided over a profligate boom and bust, the risk now is of economic stagnation.

  工党主政了一个恣意挥霍的繁荣与萧条时期，现在的危险是经济停滞。

• the time-honoured way for a republican opposition to undermine a democratic president is to depict him as profligate with the nation’s treasure and careless of its security.

  在野的共和党拆民主党总统的台，这个经典桥段上演的话，奥巴马总统将会被政敌描述为挥霍国家财富，不顾国家安全。

• this will hurt greece「s creditors, but those entities assumed the risk when they loaned to a country long known for its profligate ways.

  这样会对希腊的债权人造成损害，但是这些放款实体在把钱借给这个长期以来以恣意挥霍闻名的国家时已经计算过这种风险。

• that, in turn, prolonged global imbalances by making it easier for profligate countries to finance their current-account deficits.

  接下来使得爱挥霍的国家更容易为本国经常项目赤字融资，从而拖延全球不平衡。

• but is this really the choice we currently face—between dour, flinty responsibility or profligate favors for the fortunate?

  难道当我们面对财富的时候只能在冰冷的责任和肆意的挥霍中二选一么？

• worse, no one really believed the 「no bail-out」 clause, which is why financial markets for too long failed to distinguish profligate governments from prudent ones.

  更糟的是，没有人真正相信「无保释」条款，这也是长久以来金融市场未能区分挥霍的政府和谨慎的政府的原因。

• and the idea of transformation optics is so beautiful that it would seem a profligate waste of inspiration if it didn」t lead to something useful.

  变换光学的想法非常美妙，因此如果没能促生一些美好的事物，似乎就是对这一灵感的挥霍浪费。

• the point of this profligate eye candy?

  这些点子都是些挥霍眼球的糖果吗？

• now greece is the profligate spender and shaky debtor of europe, threatening to drag the financial system into another global crisis.

  而今希腊成了欧洲肆意挥霍的败家子和信誉堪忧的举债人，简直能将整个金融系统拖入另一场全球危机。

• more irksome still is that profligate america is able to borrow on better terms.

  使人恼怒的是，肆意挥霍的美国还能进行更为划算的借贷。

• as a result, the prudent members of the third world are becoming safer places to invest than the profligate ones of the first.

  结果，第三世界较为谨慎的成员国，相对恣意挥霍的西方，成为投资更安全的目的地。

• in reality, a country could live in such a profligate manner only so long as the rest of the world retained confidence in its economic prescriptions.

  最终，现实无情，一个国家仅靠世界各地对其经济处方持有信心，以挥霍无度的方式运作是不可能持久的。

• 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沖击的。

• the japanese also spend rather less on their health care than most rich countries—around 8% of gdp—particularly profligate america.

  日本人在保健方面的花费也大大低于很多富裕国家（约占gdp的8%），与挥霍浪费的美国人相比差距尤甚。

• before the credit crisis started to brew, investors were almost as keen to own the public debt of profligate italy as that of prudent germany.

  就在信贷危机酝酿之前，投资者对挥霍无度的意大利公债的热情甚至不亚于对节俭的德国国债的热衷。

• german public opinion is firmly set against dipping into the public purse to help the profligate greeks.

  德国舆论坚决反对使用其国库的钱来帮助挥霍的希腊人。

• even though the country accounts for only 0.5 per cent of the world's economy, the crash of that profligate nation will have global consequences.

  虽然这个恣意挥霍的国家在全球经济中所占的比重仅为0.5%，但该国危机却将造成全球性后果。

• america and europe used to preach to fiscally profligate developing countries about the need for structural adjustment.

  美国和欧洲过去习惯向财政挥霍的发展中国家鼓吹有关结构调整的需要。

• 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。

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