noun
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- a recklessly extravagant consumer
- Synonym: prodigal squanderer
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- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- Synonym: rake rakehell rip blood roue
adj
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- 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
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- recklessly wasteful
- prodigal in their expenditures
- Synonym: extravagant prodigal spendthrift
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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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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。
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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。
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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。
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A profligate use of scarce resources .
对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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She is well-known for her profligate spending habits .
她因极其浪费的花钱习惯而出名。
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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。
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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?
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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。
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Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy .
他们挥霍的生活方式导致的破产
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。