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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The striking feature, indeed, is that the worst-hit economies are not those of profligate, high-spending countries, such as the UK and US, but of prudent, high-saving countries, such as Germany and Japan.
  实际上，其中最引人注目的特征是，受冲击最严重的不是肆意挥霍的高支出国家，例如英国和美国，而是一些谨慎的高储蓄国家，例如德国和日本。
• A profligate use of scarce resources.
  对稀少的资源的恣意挥霍。