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profligate
时间: 2025-11-18 06:34:22
英 [ˈprɒflɪɡət]

adj.放荡的;荒淫的;行为不检的;极度浪费的;恣意挥霍的;挥金如土的;

n.放荡的人;极度浪费的人;恣意挥霍的人;挥金如土的人;

双语例句
  • 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。

    《新英汉大辞典》
  • Greece is a true profligate.

    希腊是一个真正的挥霍着。

  • The point of this profligate eye candy?

    这些点子都是些挥霍眼球的糖果吗?

  • Profligate spending habits are unlikely to return soon.

    花钱的败家子习惯不太可能马上回转。

  • But investors will have to work to separate the prudent from the profligate.

    但是投资者将不得不区分挥霍浪费的州和审慎的州。

  • The profligate glory days of limitless water everywhere seem to be over.

    那些大肆挥霍水的日子将一去不返。

  • Mrs Merkel must demonstrate she can impose rigour on profligate Mediterraneans.

    默克尔夫人必须表明她能严厉苛责地对待挥霍浪费成性的地中海国家。

  • 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。

  • That is also supposed to set an example to profligate members of the euro zone.

    这也为那些挥金如土的欧元区成员国树立了榜样。

  • 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。

  • 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。

  • 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。

  • Mr Ryan understandably defines himself against the profligate House Republicans of that era.

    瑞安先生理所当然地把自己定位为抵抗那个时期挥霍无度的共和党众议员的人士。

  • 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。

  • 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。

  • It must have, but reining in such a profligate program that subsidizes idleness is an idea that makes sense.

    一定会的,但是控制这样一个为失业补贴的浪费项目是有意义的。

  • Yet no euro-area country wants to give its more profligate fellows the impression that their debts will be covered.

    但是任何一个欧元区国家都不想给其他恣意挥霍的成员国留下为其债务埋单的印象。

  • Voters in the donor country would be outraged if the rewards of their thrift were used to rescue the profligate.

    出资国选民若得知其节俭成果被用于援救那些奢侈浪费者,必将愤怒不已。

  • Euro-pessimists mutter that Mrs Merkel seems more interested in punishing the profligate than in European solidarity.

    对欧元持悲观态度的人士则抱怨称,默克尔似乎对惩戒财务铺张行为的兴趣要大过“欧盟团结”。

  • Only a few industries—metals, paper, chemicals, cement and the like—are both global and profligate enough to be at risk.

    只有几个行业---金属、造纸、化工和水泥等---遇到的风险可能较大,因为他们既有外国竞争,又使用大量能源。

  • America's most profligate states do not owe as much, proportionately, as Greece. But their politics are just as problematic.

    美国大多数肆意挥霍的州并不像希腊欠的那么多,但它们的政策一样糟糕。

  • 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。

  • 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。

  • America spends 53% more per head than the next most profligate country and almost two-and-a-half times the rich-country average.

    比起医疗开销仅次于美国的国家,美国人均医疗开销多花53%,是富裕国家平均水平的2.5倍。

  • Such promises, though necessary to convince the prudent to rely on the fund, will however tempt some countries to run profligate policies.

    这种承诺,尽管能够说服那些谨慎的人信赖这一基金,但是同时也会使某些国家因此在制定政策时挥霍无度。

  • 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。

  • 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。

近义词
adj. 放荡的,不检点的;恣意挥霍的
n. 放荡者;享乐者
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