prodigal

英 [ˈprɒdɪɡl]

美 [ˈprɑːdɪɡl]

adj. 浪费的; 挥霍的; 大手大脚的
n. 浪费者; 浪子; [动]军曹鱼

BNC.19816 / COCA.19847

习惯用语

adj.

the/a prodigal (son)

回头的浪子；改邪归正的人
a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home

adj.

ADJ 浪子回头的
You can describe someone as aprodigalson or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person.
1. ...the parable of the prodigal son.
  关于浪子回头的寓言
2. Prodigalis also a noun.
3. ...the prodigal had returned.
  浪子回头了。
ADJ 挥霍的；浪费的；奢侈的
Someone who behaves in aprodigalway spends a lot of money carelessly without thinking about what will happen when they have none left.
1. Prodigal habits die hard.
  大手大脚的习惯很难改掉。

noun

adj

recklessly wasteful
1. prodigal in their expenditures
Synonym:extravagantprofligatespendthrift

The teaching of the parable does not end, however, with the prodigal's return.
该寓言教学并没有结束，但是，与浪子的归来。
Are you kidding? The prodigal Luthor son returns.
开什么玩笑，路德企业的多金浪子。
Do not provoke prodigal son of arts, culture, youth and middle-aged man.
不要招惹浪子、文艺青年和中年男子。
Just look at the father of the prodigal son.
只要想想那位浪子的父亲，你们还记得吗？
A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
[谚]有吝啬的父亲必有败家之子。
I am determined, I really like the back of a prodigal son, back home, back to my father's side.
我决心，我要像一个真正回头的浪子，回到家里，回到我父亲的身边。
Are you going to kill the fatted calf for the prodigal son, Jack?
杰克，浪子回家，你准备宰杀那头小肥牛吗？
He has been prodigal of the money left by his parents.
他已挥霍掉他父母留下的钱。
Her novel, Home, is a profound examination of family life told through the eyes of a prodigal son returning home to confront his past and his alcoholism.
《家》的获奖没有任何争议，所有的评委一致把选票投给了她。小说讲述了一个回家的浪子，通过他的视角，回顾了不堪的过去，同时努力从酗酒的生活中挣脱。
The genius in his works, in his deeds, is necessarily a prodigal.
创作里的天才，行为上定是个挥霍者。