profligate

美 [ˈprɑːflɪɡət]英 [ˈprɒflɪɡət]
  • adj.挥霍的;浪费的
  • n.放荡的人;恣意挥霍的人

派生词: profligacy n.

profligateprofligate

adj.

formal disapproving挥霍的;浪费的
using money, time, materials, etc. in a careless way

profligate spending

恣意挥霍的开支

wasteful

profligate

频次

  • 1
    ADJ-GRADED 挥霍的;浪费的
    Someone who is profligate spends too much money or uses too much of something.

    ...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world.

    世界上能源挥霍最严重的国家

noun

1
a recklessly extravagant consumer
Synonym: prodigal squanderer
2
a dissolute man in fashionable society
Synonym: rake rakehell rip blood roue

adj

1
unrestrained by convention or morality
Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
deplorably dissipated and degraded
riotous living
fast women
Synonym: debauched degenerate degraded dissipated dissolute libertine riotous fast
2
recklessly wasteful
prodigal in their expenditures
Synonym: extravagant prodigal spendthrift

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  1. 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。

  2. But China and the continental European countries , led by Germany , argue it is all the fault of profligate deficit countries .

    但中国和以德国为首的欧洲大陆国家辩称,一切都应归咎于恣意挥霍的赤字国家。

  3. This young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water .

    这个青年完全有可能成为十足的浪子。

  4. 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。

  5. 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。

  6. 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。

  7. Some cities consume energy with admirable efficiency . Others are more profligate .

    一些城市的能源利用效率让人钦佩,而另一些城市却挥霍无度。

  8. In punishing profligate borrowers , they also damage their own citizens .

    在惩罚挥霍无度的债务国的同时,这种做法也伤害了本国民众。

  9. Some ( mostly Germany ) want a tough new regime to punish the profligate .

    一些国家(主要是德国)希望建立新的严厉的体制,以惩罚挥霍者。

  10. A profligate use of scarce resources .

    对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。

  11. 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。

  12. Instead of lending surplus savings to profligate foreigners , Germans could enjoy higher living standards at home .

    德国不再把多余的储蓄出借给挥霍无度的外国人,本国国民的生活水准就可能显著提高。

  13. 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。

  14. She is well-known for her profligate spending habits .

    她因极其浪费的花钱习惯而出名。

  15. The Germans want a different sort of centralisation , built on rules to punish the profligate .

    德国人想建立另外一种类型的中央集权,建立在对挥霍型政府进行惩罚的原则之上。

  16. 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?

  17. The US has formidable strengths that will allow its government to be profligate for far longer than other nations could get away with .

    美国有着令人敬畏的实力,因此该国政府可以在更长的时间内肆意挥霍,这远远超出了其它国家所能承受的水平。

  18. Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy .

    他们挥霍的生活方式导致的破产

  19. Worse , they tend to lock developing countries into a needlessly profligate development path , heavily skewed towards fossil fuel .

    更糟糕的是,它们往往会让发展中国家陷入不必要挥霍的发展道路,向化石燃料严重倾斜。

  20. 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。

  21. 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管理经常项目赤字,从而拖延全球不平衡。

  22. They believe that the interest rate pressure on profligate nations is the only thing that is forcing them to actually tighten their belts .

    德国人认为,迫使他们勒紧腰带的唯一因素就是奢侈成员国(过度奢侈导致财政失衡,债台高筑&译注)的利率压力。

  23. 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。

  24. But , this can be seen as a symptom of new urban wealth being put to speculative use , rather than the profligate use of leverage .

    不过,这种现象可以被看作新增城市财富被用于投机的一种征兆,而不是对杠杆的滥用。

  25. But it needs to concentrate on institutional ways of disciplining profligate governments , rather than starving the rescue package of funds .

    但它需要专注于从制度上规定一些方法来惩戒不检点的政府,而不是要让救援计划因缺乏资金而饿死。

  26. 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。

  27. But avoiding the sort of profligate spending of the US and UK has not saved Japan , Germany and China from credit bust fallout .

    但是,避免美英等国那种大肆消费习惯,并未使日本、德国和中国免受信贷萧条的冲击。

  28. As China , for example , recycled export earnings back into dollar denominated assets , the US could happily run profligate trade deficits with impunity .

    举例来说,当中国把出口所得重新投入以美元计价的资产时,美国就可以笑对巨额贸易逆差,而不遭受任何惩罚。

  29. So not only are European stocks not cheap : global investors still worry that much of the region is still inherently profligate , austerity notwithstanding .

    因此,欧洲的股票并不便宜;不仅如此,全球投资者还担心,欧洲许多国家虽然正在施行紧缩,但依然难改花钱大手大脚的本性。

  30. Germany is demanding changes to the European treaties that would concentrate unprecedented power in Brussels to scrutinise budgets and sanction profligate governments .

    德国正要求对欧盟各项条约进行修订,将空前权力集中至布鲁塞尔,由其对预算进行审查,并对肆意挥霍的政府进行制裁。