spendthrift

英 [ˈspendθrɪft]

美 [ˈspendθrɪft]

n.  花钱无度的人; 挥霍者
adj.  浪费的，奢侈的

复数：spendthrifts　

GRE

BNC.34671 / COCA.29234

牛津词典

noun

• 花钱无度的人；挥霍者
  a person who spends too much money or who wastes money

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 挥霍者;浪费金钱的人
  If you call someone aspendthrift, you mean that they spend too much money.
  1. Spendthriftis also an adjective.
     
  2. ...his father's spendthrift ways.
     他父亲挥金如土

英英释义

noun

• someone who spends money prodigally
  Synonym:spend-allspenderscattergood

adj

• recklessly wasteful
  1. prodigal in their expenditures
  Synonym:extravagantprodigalprofligate

双语例句

• He accused the Council of being spendthrift.
  他指控委员会挥钱财。
• From China's perspective, Mr Obama's emergency measures to stimulate the US economy and persuade Americans to spend their way out of recession smack of re-creating the spendthrift ways that triggered the crisis in the first place.
  在中国看来，奥巴马刺激美国经济以及劝说国人通过消费摆脱衰退的紧急措施，都带着点重蹈覆辙的意味，因为最先引发这场危机的，正是大肆挥霍的消费方式。
• The money it subsequently saved was recycled back to the spendthrift West to underpin the easy credit that gave the world subprime mortgages and collateralised debt obligations.
  亚洲后来节省下来的钱，都流回了挥霍的西方，为给世界带来次贷和债务抵押债券（cdo）的宽松信贷提供了资金支持。
• What a spendthrift! All the money he makes goes on new ears.
  他真是个花钱如流水的人！挣的钱都用来购置新车。
• If anything, it is Beijing some of whose officials now privately boast they have nothing at all to learn from the Great Spendthrift that has the upper hand.
  总之，北京占了上风。中国某些官员现在私下夸耀，美国这个大挥霍者根本没有什么值得他们学习的。
• But as those banks start blowing up and its economy shrinks, Spain will look more like its spendthrift southern European neighbor.
  但如果西班牙的银行开始破产，经济开始萎缩，它就会变得跟南面这位挥霍无度的欧洲邻居没什么两样。
• Spendthrift, who had wasted his fortune, and had nothing left but the clothes in which he stood, saw a swallow one fine day in early spring.
  有一个败家子，已挥霍完他所有的财产，就剩下身上穿的衣服了。早春的一个晴天，他看到了一只燕子。
• And he is scathing about the spendthrift ways of the Republican party after 2000-suggesting that it deserved to lose the 2006 midterm elections.
  他对共和党在2000年之后大肆挥霍的做法进行了严厉批评&暗指共和党在2006年中期选举中失利，也是应得的下场。
• My father tells me I'm too much of a spendthrift.
  我父亲说我太浪费了。
• The spendthrift son had once again pulled a fast one on his tight-fisted father.
  那个浪子又一次设计欺骗他吝啬的父亲。