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

• A profligate use of scarce resources.
  对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
  她因极其浪费的花钱习惯而出名。
• In her profligate life, she lost all sense of decency.
  在她放荡的生活中，她完全丧失了一个正常人的理智。
• 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。
• 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。
• Northern Europeans resent a monetary union that has permitted southern Europe to engage in what they see as fiscally profligate behaviour, while southern Europeans and the Irish are required to submit to extreme austerity programmes that exacerbate their sovereign debt problems.
  欧洲北部国家对货币联盟感到不满，因为它允许欧洲南部国家从事被其视为财政挥霍的行为。同时欧洲南部国家和爱尔兰被要求实施极端的紧缩计划，这加剧了它们的主权债务问题。
• Thus, foreign direct investment, where the project is chosen by the foreign investor directly, makes a positive contribution to growth that financing the liabilities of bad banks or profligate governments does not.
  因此，由外国投资者直接挑选项目的外商直接投资，对经济增长作出了积极贡献，而为管理不善的银行或者肆意挥霍的政府提供资金，以偿还其负债，则不可能产生积极影响。